Sony Patent Would Unleash AI ‘Ghosts’ to Beat Games for You When…

Getting stuck in a video game is a problem as old as video games themselves. Back in the day, this usually meant running up against a puzzle you couldn’t solve, and depending on how old you are, the remedy was either shelling out for a mail-order hint book, paying by the minute to dial the publisher’s hint line, or badgering that one friend with a dial-up AOL connection to get the answer from the know-it-alls on a bulletin board.

With the advent of the internet, however, solutions…