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A Microsoft robot got the highest all-time score in ‘Ms. Pac-Man’
Game over, man. A Microsoft-made artificial-intelligence system has achieved a perfect score of 999,990 points on the Atari 2600 version of the classic “Ms. Pac-Man” — making it very likely the first time anybody, human or robot, has “beaten” the…
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Microsoft AI gets maximum score possible on Ms. Pac-Man
It’s official. Humans are now second-best at playing Ms. Pac-Man, a 1980s twist on the arcade classic, involving eating pellets and being chased by ghosts. It was rated as one of the hardest games for an AI to beat, but…
In the news | The Verge
Sorry humans, Microsoft’s AI is the first to reach a perfect Ms. Pac-Man score
Sorry humans, Microsoft’s AI is the first to reach a perfect Ms. Pac-Man score. AI researchers have a documented penchant for using video games to test machine learning.
In the news | Mashable
An AI just beat ‘Ms. Pac-Man.’ We’re doomed.
Ms. Pac-Man was supposed to be the more difficult arcade game. But now it’s been laid low — like chess, Go, and poker before it — by artificial intelligence. Researchers with deep learning company Maluuba, which Microsoft acquired earlier this…
In the news | Fortune
Microsoft Claims its Artificial Intelligence is a Ms. Pac-Man Whiz
Microsoft’s artificial intelligence technology, it turns out, is a whiz at playing Ms. Pac-Man, the 1980’s-era video game. The tech giant’s computers achieved a perfect score of 990,900, surpassing the existing (human held) record of 266,360…