> Tempest AI is a reinforcement learning system that learns to play Atari's Tempest (1981) by watching the game run inside the MAME arcade emulator. A Lua script reads the game's memory every frame, a Python application trains a neural network on the GPU, and the network's decisions are fed back to the game controls — all in real time, at thousands of frames per second.
> This README explains the architecture for programmers who may not be deep-learning specialists. No prior RL knowledge is assumed.