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Dans l’actualité | BBC News

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.

Dans l’actualité | TechCrunch

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.

Dans l’actualité | TechCrunch

Microsoft subsidiary Maluuba used multiple individual AI agents to defeat the video game — a long-time challenge for the AI and human community.

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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…

Dans l’actualité | The Verge

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.

Dans l’actualité | Mashable

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…

Dans l’actualité | Business Insider

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…

Dans l’actualité | Wired

How defeating a classic 1982 videogame could help Microsoft make better enterprise software.

Dans l’actualité | Fortune

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…