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…
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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…
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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.
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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…
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“Project Emma” tremor-reducing watch unveiled by Microsoft CEO
The team behind an innovative vibrating wristwatch that helped Emma Lawton—who lives with young-onset Parkinson's disease—to draw again, introduced the device at a prestigious tech conference.
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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.
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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 Masters Ms. Pac-Man With a Horde of AI Agents
How defeating a classic 1982 videogame could help Microsoft make better enterprise software.
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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...