Robots Teach Each Other How To Play Pac-Man

Flickr/Ryan Somma Here's a slight improvement to drunkenly shouting over your friend's shoulder while they play a round of Pac-Man at the bar: Researchers at Washington State University have created computer programs that teach each other how to play Pac-Man. In a new study, the researchers explain how they built one teacher-like computer and one student-like computer; as the student computer fumbled, the teacher helped the student slowly improve at Pac-Man and the strategy game StarCraft. Plus,...