AI can predict how monkeys play Pac-Man

An artificial intelligence can accurately predict how a monkey plays the Pac-Man video game and mimic the animals’ eye movements when they do this.

Tianming Yang 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. Getting Pac-Man, the character players control, to eat the ghosts after chomping on a special dot that makes them vulnerable also earned…