The Xu Research Group participated in the AI for Good Media Day at UMD College Park!

Created on October 16, 2025

2025

Participating in the AI for Good Media Day with Dr. Mumu Xu and undergraduate researcher Alexis Chen!

We demo’d our interactive Mario Kart (SNES) game alongside four trained models:

  1. Fast Mario, trained for completing a loop as quickly as possible
  2. Safe Mario, trained to stay on the road and drive under a specified speed limit
  3. Weird Mario, a model that did not finish training and exhibits some peculiar behavior
  4. Bad Mario, a model that does not finish the loop.

Check out the following news articles written about our event!

  1. This classic video game is helping guide the future of autonomous driving by John Domen for WTOPNews
  2. Artificial Intelligence learns to drive: Mario Kart by Karle Hille for the Baltimore Sun

  3. WBALTV covered our project in this news segment (start at 1:00):

  1. FOX5DC covered our project in this news segment (start at 1:18):
  2. Lastly, a news station in Milwaukee, WI covered our project on their podcast segment, "Stories of the Strange"...