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AI meets Angry Birds

Could this be the year that AI is going to surpass human performance in playing the popular video game Angry Birds? The organizers of the annual AIBIRDS competition discuss the challenges involved.

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Renz, J., Ge, X., Stephenson, M. et al. AI meets Angry Birds. Nat Mach Intell 1, 328 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-019-0072-x

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