Microsoft Researchers Developed An AI That Got A Perfect Score On 'Ms. Pac-Man'

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At first, I thought this merely amusing given the Ms. Pac-Man angle and then it got a little more interesting. 

 

 

Microsoft Researchers Developed An AI That Got A Perfect Score On 'Ms. Pac-Man'

 

 

Researchers at Maluuba, a deep learning startup that was recently acquired by Microsoft, have developed an artificial intelligence system that became the first player - human or computer - to achieve a perfect 999,990 score in Ms. Pac-Man.

Using deep learning to develop programs that can defeat video games isn't a new feat, but this accomplishment is notable for several reasons.

First of all, it's notable because of the type of game chosen. The old 1980s arcade games weren't designed to be beaten - they were designed to keep people pumping in quarters. And when Ms. Pac-Man was developed, it was actually programmed to be less predictable than the original Pac-Man, so that it would be tougher for players to beat it.

The second and perhaps most notable aspect of this accomplishment, though, is the approach that the researchers took to solve Ms. Pac-Man. Rather than develop a single intelligent agent to learn the game, as other researchers have done, this team instead used a number of simpler intelligent agents to learn a single aspect of the game. For example, there are agents learning about ghost behavior, about fruit behavior, about pellet behavior, etc......

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Microsoft Researchers Developed An AI That Got A Perfect Score On 'Ms. Pac-Man'

Do you think they could develop one for the Ebay game to fix all the bugs, glitches and there supposed search function?

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