There are many who fancy themselves among the greatest Tetris players ever to have lived; the author of this post is one of them. Nbd.
But none of us is this good:
Like human players, Cannon's impressive StackRabbit AI gets better at playing Tetris through repeatedly playing and analyzing the game to develop improved strategies. But unlike human players, StackRabbit has nerves of steel and doesn't start to panic as the ever-growing stack of tetrominoes approaches the top of the play board, which it pairs with lightning-quick reflexes to play one of the most mesmerizing and impressive rounds of Tetris you've probably ever seen.
Here's the crazy part: We all know it's a robot playing the game, unbound from the normal rules and limitations of human existence...and yet, as is always the case with Tetris, the game still feels like a nail-biter:
Note how thoroughly the machine has dominated our puny human Tetris skills:
Human players have managed to hit NES Tetris high scores of over 1.6 million points, but with artificial human limits removed, Cannon's StackRabbit AI managed to reach level 237 of the game with a score of 102,252,920 points after around an hour and five minutes of gameplay.
Pretty impressive, although admit it: From now on, even if you have an absolute barn-burner of a game, you're always gonna think of those 100,000,000 points and it's gonna feel like you got the teeniest rocket ending.
