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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.
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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.
In the news | TechCrunch
Microsoft’s AI beats Ms. Pac-Man
Microsoft subsidiary Maluuba used multiple individual AI agents to defeat the video game — a long-time challenge for the AI and human community.
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…
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 | Business Insider
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…
In the news | 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.
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…