Nvidia AI tech recreates Pacman code from watching it being played

Nvidia says it has developed AI technology which can re-create the code that created Pacman just from watching the game being played.

Nvidia demonstrated how the technology was able to construct the code after watching the game being played for for four days.

“It learns all of these things just by watching,” says Nvidia’s vp of simulation technology, Rev Lebaredian, explaining that it’s “similar to how a human programmer can watch many episodes of Pacman on YouTube and infer what the rules of the games are and reconstruct them.”

The technology could be useful outside the gaming area in creating algorithms, says Nvidia, for instance it could design navigation algorithms by watching robotic trolleys.

Nvidia says it will put the reconstructed Pacman game on-line.