Proximal Policy Optimization for Playing Super Mario Bros

How far away is this from the top speedruns? The readme mentions OpenAI beating Dota 2 pros with the same models, so who knows??

It seems like an AI would not "play by the rules" and can easily detect weird edge cases and shortcuts. But as far as I can tell from the small GIFs, it's not doing any particular glitches.

It can’t complete all the levels and actually does worse on the first level than a normal human (for example falling down a hole and having to get out again).

So it’s quite far from a speed run.

Original paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.06347

Disclaimer: I am not the creator.

Does this somehow include the ROM for the game and an emulator?