Everyone loves a few rounds of a classic video game , but why should mankind have all the fun ? TheMs Pac - Man vs Ghost Team Competitionserves to compensate the balance by put AI controllers in rush of picture plot lineament in an effort to see which wreak the secret plan well .
Competitors could submit AI controllers for either the nominal Ms Pac - Man or the squad of four ghost and each entrant faced off against the repose to determine a victor . The Ms Pac - Man AI had to maximise its sexual conquest , while the ghost AI had to prevent Ms Pac - Man from scoring . The competition was organize by Philipp Rohlfshagen and Simon Lucas , two calculator scientists at the University of Essex , with the results denote today at theCongress on Evolutionary Computationin New Orleans .
How did the AI controllers do ? compare to a human , not great – the high scoring Ms Pac - Man control was 69,240 , while the mankind record stands at more than 900,000 point . “ I would assume that ‘ professional ’ human Ms Pac - Man participant will be better than any AI restrainer at this stage , ” says Rohlfshagen , though he add that the wraith squad were also much hard to fiddle against than those found in the original biz : “ The original ghost team was develop to engage and flirt with the human instrumentalist whereas the ghost teams submitted in the contender were designed to eat Ms Pac - Man as expeditiously as possible . ”
explicate an AI to play video game for us is n’t really the aim though , and there is some serious research behind the competition . “ game are ordinarily seen as a valuable trial - layer for new technologies in computational intelligence as they are well outlined yet very challenging , ” explains Rohlfshagen . He say the multi - agent algorithmic program behind the ghost controller could be used for transport or military program , or even sit biological predator - prey dynamics .
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