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Research Collection – Shall we play a game?
From a research point of view, games offer an amazing environment in which to develop new machine learning algorithms and techniques. And we hope, in due course, that those new algorithms will feed back not just into gaming, but into…
Reliability in Reinforcement Learning
| Romain Laroche
Reinforcement Learning (RL), much like scaling a 3,000-foot rock face, is about learning to make sequential decisions. The list of potential RL applications is expansive, spanning robotics (drone control), dialogue systems (personal assistants, automated call centers), the game industry (non-player…
Dans l’actualité | The AI Blog
Divide and conquer: How Microsoft researchers used AI to master Ms. Pac-Man
Microsoft researchers have created an artificial intelligence-based system that learned how to get the maximum score on the addictive 1980s video game Ms. Pac-Man, using a divide-and-conquer method that could have broad implications…
Dans l’actualité | PCMag India
Microsoft AI first to reach perfect Ms Pac-Man score
Researchers at Maluuba, a deep-learning startup recently acquired by Microsoft, have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) system that became the first player ever to achieve a perfect 999,990 score in Ms Pac-Man — an arcade video game.
Dans l’actualité | BBC News
Microsoft AI plays a perfect game of Ms Pac-Man
One of Microsoft’s artificial intelligence systems has conquered the 1980s video game Ms. Pac-Man. The team, from Microsoft-owned Canadian AI firm Maluuba, achieved the perfect score of 999,990.
Dans l’actualité | TechCrunch
Microsoft’s AI beats Ms. Pac-Man
The complexity of Ms. Pac-Man, with its many boards and moving parts, has made the classic title an especially difficult target. Until now, no human or machine has achieved the feat.
Hybrid Reward Architecture (HRA) Achieving super-human performance on Ms. Pac-Man
Games are popular as a test-bed for new machine learning techniques because they can be very challenging and allow for easy analysis of new learning techniques in a controlled environment. For reinforcement learning, where the goal is to learn good…
Dans l’actualité | TIME
Robots to Humans: You Lose. We Just Finally Conquered Ms. Pac-Man
A group of tech superheroes — also known as researchers at recent Microsoft acquisition Maluuba — have achieved the seeming impossible, and reached the maximum possible score on classic 1980s Atari game Ms. Pac-Man.
Dans l’actualité | Wired
Microsoft Masters Ms. Pac-Man With a Horde of AI Agents
How defeating a classic 1982 videogame could help Microsoft make better enterprise software.