AI Takes On Pac-Man 113
mikejuk writes "AI takes on Pac-Man — well, in fact it plays both sides. An annual competition challenges participants to write Java programs to control Pac-Man or the ghosts. It might not be chess, but it pits machine against machine, with algorithms going head-to-head as the AI ghosts try and eat AI Pac-Man."
Re:Already Over (Score:4, Insightful)
That's slashdot for you. "Olds for geeks, stuff that probably doesn't matter."
Re:Pac-Man is too hard (Score:2, Insightful)
And yet here's an AI that can apparently beat it..... what does that say about my friends and coworkers?
That apparently, there are some things computers are better at than people?
QUICK! What's the 761st decimal place [wikimedia.org] of pi?
Does it make some statement about you that a computer can calculate the above several of orders of magnitude faster than you?
Re:Pac-Man is too hard (Score:4, Insightful)
I guess it would say that your friends and coworkers are thick as shit or really aren't that interested in video games.
But then, you can also ask the AI, "where's the salt?" or other some such question and wait for a sensible response. Or ask it to catch a ball. Or navigate its way through a town, find a nice birthday present, bake a cake, create spontaneous conversations with strangers... Lots of things that I'm sure it would fail at.
Re:Pac-Man is too hard (Score:5, Insightful)
It always amazes me when I show Pac-man to various people and they "It's too hard." And yet here's an AI that can apparently beat it..... what does that say about my friends and coworkers?
What does this dumb comment say about you?
Re:Already Over (Score:2, Insightful)
why the fuck? pacman can be played "perfectly" because the ghosts always move the same depending on what the player is doing. that's how some people can play it till they drop, it needs no thinking. and if you're writing control code for the ghosts then it's bye bye for pacman no matter how pacman is controlled.
you know what's a real challange? writing a cs bot that passes as a human. no need to wait for pesky competition either.
Re:Pac-Man is too hard (Score:4, Insightful)
It always amazes me when I show Pac-man to various people and they "It's too hard." And yet here's an AI that can apparently beat it..... what does that say about my friends and coworkers?
I can't beat level 3, yet I'm sure I can program an AI that could play better than me. What that's supposed to mean? :)
Re:Pac-Man is too hard (Score:4, Insightful)
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