Teaching AI to Survive Resident Evil 2 DAY 2

An AI is learning to play the ORIGINAL 1998 Resident Evil 2, live, from scratch. Every attempt starts again from the save, and failing is how it learns. 🎯 CURRENT MISSION Use the main hall computer in the best time possible. After that: rooms 201 and 204, and then we let it explore. 🧠 THE BRAIN It's a small neural network "wired like a fly brain". It uses a piece of a real fruit-fly connectome (about 4,000 neurons and 110,000 connections) as its wiring, and it learns with reinforcement learning (a DQN). It is NOT an uploaded fly, and we don't yet know if the fly wiring helps, so this is an experiment. 🍪 HOW IT LEARNS The reward is "cookies": • progress toward the next door • new ground explored • zombie damage and kills • each door it gets through • a personal-best time for every room (faster = more cookies) It LOSES cookies for taking damage, wasting time and running into walls. If health drops below 70 the attempt ends with a huge penalty, and it reloads the save and tries again. ⏱️ THE RULES • 2 minutes per room (the hall gets longer), and the clock restarts at each door • Restart at health below 70 • The overlay shows the attempt number, health, room timer, cookies, best room times and the route best 🤝 THE ASSISTS (full disclosure) It's an AI learning, but it is helped: • Infinite Magnum ammo, set up in the save file • A "radar" for the nearest live enemy in the room it's in: direction, distance, and whether it's on the floor or higher • A map of the doors and rooms It can't see through walls or see other rooms. Everything it sees is for the room it is standing in. 🎮 HOW IT PLAYS It reads the game's memory (read-only) and sends controller input through a virtual controller. 💬 LEON'S LINES The subtitles at the bottom are hand-written jokes and story lines, not AI-generated. 📚 CREDITS Fly connectome data: MaleCNS v1.0, Janelia FlyEM, CC BY 4.0 (https://www.janelia.org/project-team/.... Learning: Stable-Baselines3. Built with help from Claude (Anthropic). Resident Evil is © Capcom. This channel is not affiliated with Capcom. Gameplay is streamed under Capcom's video policy. 🔞 Mature content: horror game with zombies and gore. #ResidentEvil2 #AI #MachineLearning #ReinforcementLearning #Resi2 #LiveStream