Interactive Archives

MIA Retro AI Arcade

Traverse the evolutionary steps of machine intelligence through interactive, live simulations. Open each simulation in full screen to inspect internal matrices, tweak parameters, and break the AI.

ELIZA Therapist visual archive
1966Rule-Based Chatbot
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ELIZA Therapist

Talk to one of the very first computer programs that could chat like a human! By turning your sentences around and asking questions back, it tricks people into thinking it's a real therapist. It showed the world that computers could mimic human conversation using simple text rules.

A* Pathfinding visual archive
1968Shakey the Robot Pathing
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A* Pathfinding

Help Shakey the Robot find the fastest way through a maze! By calculating the distance traveled and guessing how close the goal is, the computer figures out the perfect path. This math trick is how modern video games and GPS maps guide characters and cars today.

Genetic Walkers visual archive
1994Evolutionary Simulation
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Genetic Walkers

Watch funny block creatures learn how to walk! By starting with random shapes and movements, and only letting the best ones survive and 'have babies' (mix their designs), the simulator breeds perfect walkers over generations. This shows how computer programs can improve themselves through natural selection.

Perceptron MNIST visual archive
1995Feed-Forward Neural Net
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Perceptron MNIST

Draw a number on a grid and watch a digital brain try to guess what it is! You can add virtual brain cells (neurons) and see them light up as they process different parts of your drawing. This is a mini version of how modern AI recognizes handwriting, photos, and faces.

QLearning Maze visual archive
1992Reinforcement Learning
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QLearning Maze

Train a little robot to find a battery while avoiding dangerous traps! The robot doesn't know the map at first, but by getting points for finding the battery and losing points for hitting traps, it learns the best routes through trial and error. This is the foundation of how AI learns to play chess and fly drones.

Micro-Transformer visual archive
2017Next-Token Attention
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Micro-Transformer

Type a sentence and watch a mini-AI predict the next word, just like ChatGPT! You can see which words the AI pays 'attention' to when making its guess (like connecting the word 'robot' to 'code'). This self-attention trick is the secret engine behind all modern language AI.