TASBot plays Brain Age by micro500, xy2_ in 20:06 - Awesome Games Done Quick 2016 - Part 154
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN points to it as a funny, fun-to-watch example of what TAS can do to a game's input handling.
What it is
A tool-assisted run of Brain Age by TASBot, shown at Awesome Games Done Quick 2016. The bot gives deliberately deranged answers while exploiting the game's error-prone recognition.
Recommended by 1 HN commenters across 1 different months, 2019 to 2022.
What Hacker News said
Recommends PetitPrince · 2019-07 · on “Zelda speedrunners are attacking the memory allocator”
> e.g the increasingly deranged "correct" answers to TASbot brain age. Video link: [this video] It's stupidly funny.
Cites Cycl0ps · 2021-09 · on “Facebook apology as AI labels black men 'primates'”
By the sound of it this is a problem that neither entities nor their moniedness can solve. I'm sure these companies watch each other, and when one steps on a metaphorical rake the others are likely taking notes on how to avoid it on their future attempt. And yet rakes are still being stepped on. When you have an automated system that has irregular behavior to a given input, we call that a bug. Bugs exist in all software, not always unique, but always present. This software is no different than any other. It will have errors. Because the software is categorizing faces, its errors will result in miscategorizing them. The only relevant questions to this are how frequent these errors are and how
Cites schroeding · 2022-07 · on “Games Done Quick “Ocarina of Time” beta showcase”
Arbitrary Code Execution TAS like Triforce% or this Pokemon Yellow one[1] are more or less demos that target both the console and the "host game". I would say even some non-ACE ones like this Brainage TAS[2] are demos :D [1] [LINK] [2] [this video]