{"id":759293,"date":"2020-05-22T09:04:36","date_gmt":"2020-05-22T13:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=759293"},"modified":"2020-05-22T09:04:36","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T13:04:36","slug":"after-watching-50000-hours-of-pac-man-nvidias-ai-generated-a-playable-clone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=759293","title":{"rendered":"After watching 50,000 hours of Pac-Man, Nvidia\u2019s AI generated a playable clone"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Enlarge<\/a> \/<\/span> To rebuild Pac-Man<\/em>, you must watch a lot of Pac-Man<\/em>. (credit: Nvidia \/ Bandai-Namco)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n

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You may be familiar with the Infinite Monkey Theorem, an oft-cited (and often incorrectly quoted) claim that thousands of monkeys could bang on thousands of typewriters and eventually produce a work of art equivalent to Williams Shakespeare. (Yes, Simpsons did it<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

This week, Nvidia confirms that it has taken this theory quite seriously with its own twist: an army of AI routines, dubbed GameGAN (short for “generative adversarial networks”), trained to build a playable video game from scratch. More precisely, they’ve chosen one of the industry’s biggest, most recognizable games, celebrating its 40th anniversary today: Pac-Man<\/em>.<\/p>\n

If you’ve seen other farms of computers trained on existing games, this has usually come in the form of them learning how to\u00a0play<\/em> the game in question<\/a>. After watching thousands of hours of a particular game and tracking the most successful moves and reactions in the course of a versus match, these AI routines can then control games, repeat and juggle thousands of strategies, and battle humans. (Sometimes the results go well for the computers<\/a>, but not always<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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