AI is Really Great at Solving the Marble Maze

I have written over 20 blog posts where I test AI text to image generators to see how they do making mazes (poorly). It is a lot of fun, and I have gone back and re-tested some of the same generators to see if they improved year later (they did). If you have an AI generator you like, I may have tested it. If you want a topline view of this project check these 3 main posts out where you can find links to the other posts:

Comparison of 12 AI generating websites - Who did mazes the best ?

What I learned using AI to make maze art

Making Mazes with AI - One Year Later

All of that was a set-up for something a bit different, but the same. So, while AI does a poor job making mazes, it is excellent at solving them ! And not just excellent, world record breaking ! The maze in question is the very challenging marble maze. You may have had one as a child. I have never been able to beat it. Well an open source AI robot, the CyberRunner AI robot apparently is a whiz at marble mazes. To be fair it did get 6 hours practice before the record run. Can you imagine setting a world record of ANY KIND after just 6 hours of practice ? Check out this video featuring the record vs. expert human competitors. The AI even learned to cheat (later corrected so it stopped cheating) to solve it faster using clever shortcuts.

So this makes me wonder, what things AI will be able to solve next ?

Nature is also good at solving mazes:

So a Liquid Can Solve a Maze How Exactly ?

Here are so other Marble Maze posts I have done: