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Maybe you aren’t quite the smartest in the room, but hey maybe you are smarter than a 5th grader (or at least your TNCR Crew)!
Quizzicle Insight:
It amazes me that AI was not just in the conversation when Pac-Man came out, but actually helped to dictate the ghosts’ decisions. Please enjoy the below excerpt from an article I found on the matter which gives a glimpse into the inner workings of the ghosts’ behavior.
“The ghosts’ AI is very simple and short-sighted, which makes the complex behavior of the ghosts even more impressive. Ghosts only ever plan one step into the future as they move about the maze. Whenever a ghost enters a new tile, it looks ahead to the next tile that it will reach, and makes a decision about which direction it will turn when it gets there. These decisions have one very important restriction, which is that ghosts may never choose to reverse their direction of travel. That is, a ghost cannot enter a tile from the left side and then decide to reverse direction and move back to the left. The implication of this restriction is that whenever a ghost enters a tile with only two exits, it will always continue in the same direction.”
Who would have thought that some of our very first interactions with AI may have been through a popular game such as Pac-Man?
