Watch this poor AI trying to learn to drive in GTA 5

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GTA 5's San Andreas is a rough place to do your drivers education, especially if you're a neural network with four stars and absolutely no understanding of traffic laws. Twitch user sentdex is letting viewers share in the formative moments of Charles, "a convolutional neural network that learns to drive through deep learning".

It's a bit like those driverless cars that are training themselves on GTA 5, but with a lot more vehicular manslaughter. At least I hope those ones don't have as much vehicular manslaughter...

In some ways, Charles is already pretty good; it swerves to avoid oncoming traffic and stays on the road most of the time. Unfortunately Charles does still get stuck rather frequently. Happens to the best of us, buddy. 

Even if you've already played the hell out of GTA 5 that doesn't mean you have to let AI have all the fun. Here are 10 games like GTA you can play right now.

Connor Sheridan
Connor Sheridan

I got a BA in journalism from Central Michigan University - though the best education I received there was from CM Life, its student-run newspaper. Long before that, I started pursuing my degree in video games by bugging my older brother to let me play Zelda on the Super Nintendo. I've previously been a news intern for GameSpot, a news writer for CVG, and was formerly a staff writer at GamesRadar.