This AI Learned Boxing…With Serious Knockout Power! 🥊

Sun, 08 Mar 2026 08:42:48 +0000

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00:00 Intro - You shall not pass!
00:49 Does nothing - still wins!
01:30 Boxing - but not so well
02:13 Learning is happening
02:39 After 250 million training steps
03:10 Drunkards no more!
03:29 Serious knockout power!
04:00 It works for fencing too
04:20 First Law of Papers
04:43 An important lesson

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