{"id":1414,"date":"2022-04-17T22:36:07","date_gmt":"2022-04-17T22:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gamepirenews.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/17\/what-chinese-scientists-learned-teaching-two-monkeys-to-play-pac-man\/"},"modified":"2022-04-17T22:36:07","modified_gmt":"2022-04-17T22:36:07","slug":"what-chinese-scientists-learned-teaching-two-monkeys-to-play-pac-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gamepirenews.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/17\/what-chinese-scientists-learned-teaching-two-monkeys-to-play-pac-man\/","title":{"rendered":"What Chinese Scientists Learned Teaching Two Monkeys to Play Pac-Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"fhbody-160787492\">\n<div id=\"text-160787492\" class=\"p\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t&#8220;What can scientists be taught by educating two monkeys to play Pac-Man?&#8221; asks the South China Morning Publish.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Quite a bit it appears, in response to researchers on the Chinese language Academy of Sciences.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><i>A staff of neuroscientists from the academy mentioned they used the traditional online game to have a look at the best way the primates made selections.   The consequence was the primary research of its type to point out that monkeys had been able to formulating methods to simplify a complicated job, they mentioned.  &#8220;To our information, that is the primary quantitative research that exhibits animals develop and use methods for downside fixing,&#8221; Yang Tianming, corresponding creator of the research, mentioned on Twitter.  The outcomes had been revealed within the peer-reviewed scientific journal eLife final month.<\/p>\n<p><\/i><\/p>\n<p>The scientists used synthetic intelligence to give you a statistical mannequin to search out out whether or not the monkey&#8217;s behaviour may very well be damaged down right into a set of methods&#8230;.   The monkeys had been then skilled to make use of a joystick to manoeuvre Pac-Man round a maze to gather snack pellets and keep away from ghosts. The monkeys obtained fruit juice as a reward as an alternative of incomes factors.  Yang and his colleagues discovered the monkeys understood the essential components of the sport as a result of they tended to decide on the path with the most important native reward and knew how one can react to ghosts in numerous modes&#8230;.  Extra importantly, the researchers discovered that the monkeys adopted a hierarchical resolution for the Pac-Man sport by utilizing one dominant technique and solely specializing in a subset of sport facets at a time.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers mentioned the research was vital as a result of it was quantitative and examined advanced duties&#8230;.  The research mentioned the findings paved the best way for additional understanding of the neural mechanisms underlying refined cognitive capabilities. <br \/>Plus, educating monkeys to play Pac-Man seems like enjoyable.<\/p>\n<p>Although I&#8217;m wondering how they really feel about <em>Donkey Kong<\/em>&#8230;.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/games.slashdot.org\/story\/22\/04\/17\/2111216\/what-chinese-scientists-learned-teaching-two-monkeys-to-play-pac-man?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&#038;utm_medium=feed\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;What can scientists be taught by educating two monkeys to play Pac-Man?&#8221; asks the South China Morning Publish. &#8220;Quite a bit it appears, in response to researchers on the Chinese language Academy of Sciences.&#8221; A staff of neuroscientists from the academy mentioned they used the traditional online game to have a look at the best [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1416,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30],"tags":[1276,1442,1444,1445,248,1441,1443],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.5.1 - 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