I wonder how they 'incentivized' it to go from point A to B...
The climactic music they used elevates existential feelings of anxiety. Just look at the comments
incentivization in this case is the result of the machine learning algorithms trying to minimize a certain function
in this case, the function is a distance function. the ai tries to make the distance between the player and the end point equal to zero. when it fails at point X, it tries to update its strategy in certain ways so that next time it fails at a point Y which is further than X
basically how it works
also, this explanation might sound very technical and verbose but it is how all artificially intelligent systems work. it's how skynet will one day be able to predict what you're going to buy on January 19th, 2031, for example
creepy stuff