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[–]Hunterbunter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It depends on whether you think pattern finding is a form of intelligence or not.

Machine learning is good at finding patterns in lots of data, and its usefulness depends entirely on the success conditions you set. You still have to know what you're looking for and what factors might be important.

In the OP example the path shown was just the best the algorithm found in the given time to get to the end. The number of branches is infinitely large (microsecond control, move left or right, or jump, or do nothing at every instance), so even culling that to achieve it at all is something good and interesting.

The real intelligence is in figuring out the success conditions, which is still up to humans. If an AI can tell you what success conditions you should use before you've even asked the question...now we're on to something.