Yes, I mentioned in my original post that to prevent an A.I. from being able to just use a pattern, the program that runs the A.I. could be configured to use some canned input (not known to the A.I. writer) to put Pac-man in a random state before the A.I. takes over. Then it couldn't rely on being able to run a pattern. Of course something like this would have to be done at the start of every level ...
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