AI regenerated PAC-MAN

Let’s cut to the chase – check out this blog article:

PAC-MAN Recreated with AI by NVIDIA Researchers (from NVIDIA blog)

A researcher at NVIDIA, Seung Wook Kim (CS PhD student at U. of Toronto), developed an AI model called the GameGAN, trained it with human game play data, and used it to re-generate the PAC-MAN game. According to the GameGAN project website:

GameGAN is a generative model that learns to visually imitate a desired game by ingesting screenplay and keyboard actions during training.

This work was published as a CVPR 2020 paper (preprint to be published on May 25th, 2020).

I am a huge fan of old classical games (Lode Runner is my favorite) and this is very interesting! Although I have not yet started looking into the area of ML/AI, this work appears something that I’d definitely love to dig more into.