An AI model has been able to predict the choices made by monkeys and their eye movements while playing Pac-Man, suggesting that machine intelligence can exhibit similar thinking patterns to mammals. Traditionally, in the game of Pac-Man, players are tasked with collecting dots within a maze while avoiding capture by ghosts. In this study, researcher Tianming Yang and his team at the Chinese Academy of Sciences trained two rhesus monkeys to play Pac-Man.

The monkeys were rewarded with juice for successfully collecting all the dots and evading capture by ghosts. Additionally, they were incentivized to have Pac-Man consume the ghosts after consuming a special dot that made them vulnerable. . .