The Limits To The Efficiency Of Machine Learning

ColorFight AI is a game designed to be a machine learning platform, but instead it illustrates how machine learning is not always the most effective way to implement an AI agent. Although the game is designed to be played by ML algorithms, AIs designed to follow an ad-hoc strategy have, to date, been more effective. This does not at all mean that ML is ineffective - or could not be developed to discover the same strategy - but it does sound a note of caution as more and more tasks are handed to machine learning for optimization.