Friday, May 22, 2020

PAC-MAN Recreated With AI by NVIDIA Researchers

This is pretty damn cool. This also makes me feel pretty damn OLD.

Forty years to the day since PAC-MAN first hit arcades in Japan, and went on to munch a path to global stardom, the retro classic has been reborn, delivered courtesy of AI. Trained on 50,000 episodes of the game, a powerful new AI model created by NVIDIA Research, called NVIDIA GameGAN, can generate a fully functional version of PAC-MAN — without an underlying game engine.