Now that's an extremely cool competition. The task is to write a controller (agent) for Super Mario that controls the game by itself, winning as many levels of increasing difficulty as possible. The main purpose of this competition is to be able to compare different controller development methodologies against each other, both those based on learning techniques such as artificial evolution and those that are completely hand-coded...
Related Links:
http://julian.togelius.com/mariocompetition2009/ (official site)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlkMs4ZHHr8 (screen recording of one entry)
