{"id":238768,"date":"2024-07-02T08:06:24","date_gmt":"2024-07-02T08:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/02\/ai-can-predict-how-monkeys-play-pac-man\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:15:41","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:15:41","slug":"ai-can-predict-how-monkeys-play-pac-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/02\/ai-can-predict-how-monkeys-play-pac-man\/","title":{"rendered":"AI can predict how monkeys play Pac-Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"ArticleImage\">\n<div class=\"Image__Wrapper\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image\" width=\"1350\" height=\"901\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/27165427\/SEI_210616676.jpg\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1288px) 837px, (min-width: 1024px) calc(57.5vw + 55px), (min-width: 415px) calc(100vw - 40px), calc(70vw + 74px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/27165427\/SEI_210616676.jpg?width=300 300w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/27165427\/SEI_210616676.jpg?width=400 400w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/27165427\/SEI_210616676.jpg?width=500 500w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/27165427\/SEI_210616676.jpg?width=600 600w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/27165427\/SEI_210616676.jpg?width=700 700w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/27165427\/SEI_210616676.jpg?width=800 800w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/27165427\/SEI_210616676.jpg?width=837 837w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/27165427\/SEI_210616676.jpg?width=900 900w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/27165427\/SEI_210616676.jpg?width=1003 1003w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/27165427\/SEI_210616676.jpg?width=1100 1100w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/27165427\/SEI_210616676.jpg?width=1200 1200w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/27165427\/SEI_210616676.jpg?width=1300 1300w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/27165427\/SEI_210616676.jpg?width=1400 1400w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/27165427\/SEI_210616676.jpg?width=1500 1500w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/27165427\/SEI_210616676.jpg?width=1600 1600w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/27165427\/SEI_210616676.jpg?width=1674 1674w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/27165427\/SEI_210616676.jpg?width=1700 1700w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/27165427\/SEI_210616676.jpg?width=1800 1800w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/27165427\/SEI_210616676.jpg?width=1900 1900w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/27165427\/SEI_210616676.jpg?width=2006 2006w\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-image-context=\"Article\" data-image-id=\"2437616\" data-caption=\"In Pac-Man, players must collect dots in a maze and evade capture by ghosts\" data-credit=\"ArcadeImages\/Alamy Stock Photo\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"ArticleImageCaption\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImageCaption__CaptionWrapper\">\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Title\">In Pac-Man, players must collect dots in a maze and evade capture by ghosts<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Credit\">ArcadeImages\/Alamy Stock Photo<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>An artificial intelligence can accurately predict how a monkey plays the Pac-Man video game and mimic the animals\u2019 eye movements when they do this.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/english.cebsit.cas.cn\/LABORATORIES\/YangTianMing\/Research\/\">Tianming Yang<\/a> at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and his colleagues trained two rhesus monkeys to play Pac-Man by rewarding them with juice for collecting all the dots in a maze and evading capture by ghosts. 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