{"id":18059,"date":"2025-03-11T13:38:12","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T12:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/11\/a-lot-worse-than-expected-ai-pac-man-clones-reviewed\/"},"modified":"2025-03-11T13:38:12","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T12:38:12","slug":"a-lot-worse-than-expected-ai-pac-man-clones-reviewed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/11\/a-lot-worse-than-expected-ai-pac-man-clones-reviewed\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A lot worse than expected\u2019: AI Pac-Man clones, reviewed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Can anyone, armed with just a dream and an AI chatbot, create a rudimentary version of a classic arcade game? I asked several enthusiasts who took a stab at it, with very mixed results<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a lot going on with video games and generative AI right now. Microsoft and Google have each created models<\/a> that can dream up virtual worlds, with significant limitations. And people have been using Grok, the gen-AI chatbot from Elon Musk\u2019s xAI, to make rudimentary clones of old arcade games.<\/p>\n

All you have to do is type \u201cwrite me Pong\u201d and AI (sort of) does the rest, albeit quite badly. On Feb 21, xAI employee Taylor Silveira<\/a> claimed to have created an accurate version of 1980 coin-op Pac-Man <\/em>using Grok 3, all the ghosts moving perfectly around their maze while Pac-Man chomps down dots, power pills and fruit.<\/p>\n

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\nCan anyone, armed with just a dream and an AI chatbot, create a rudimentary version of a classic arcade game? I asked several enthusiasts who took a stab at it, with very mixed results
\nThere\u2019s a lot going on with video games and generative AI right now. Microsoft and Google have each created models that can dream up virtual worlds, with significant limitations. And people have been using Grok, the gen-AI chatbot from Elon Musk\u2019s xAI, to make rudimentary clones of old arcade games.
\nAll you have to do is type \u201cwrite me Pong\u201d and AI (sort of) does the rest, albeit quite badly. On Feb 21, xAI employee Taylor Silveira claimed to have created an accurate version of 1980 coin-op Pac-Man using Grok 3, all the ghosts moving perfectly around their maze while Pac-Man chomps down dots, power pills and fruit. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Can anyone, armed with just a dream and an AI chatbot, create a rudimentary version of a classic arcade game? I asked several enthusiasts who took a stab at it, with very mixed results There\u2019s a lot going on with video games and generative AI right now. Microsoft and Google have each created models that …<\/p>\n

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