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Keep Playing With AI

An anonymous reader writes "The BBC reports how a newly developed AI system 'learns' your playing behavior and can even play for you when its time to take out the garbage or do other non-essential things around the house. My only question is if it could even learn to bs for me on those laggy starcraft 3v3 games."

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  1. If the game is going to play for me... by jsonmez · · Score: 5, Funny

    Then I want it to play the best strategy, not do the same stupid stuff I do wrong...

  2. Will it cover for me.... by Patik · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...when I need to get off my lazy game-playing ass and hit the gym?

  3. Dave, by kvn299 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I don't think you want spend all that gold on that that Palladin shield. Maybe you should relax a bit and think it over.

  4. Starcraft bsing would be hard to do... by MongooseCN · · Score: 4, Funny

    My only question is if it could even learn to bs for me on those laggy starcraft 3v3 games.

    I don't know about bsing but maybe if you hooked up a mechanical system to your serial port and ethernet cable, it would learn how to pull the cable out of the wall just before the end of your starcraft games.

  5. Re:Oh no... by DonkeyJimmy · · Score: 2, Funny

    After watching someone I know practice fishing for 8 hrs a day, every day, for over 2 months on ultima online, I welcome whatever allows people to seperate themselves from that portion of gaming monotomy. Players will still have to decide weather to fish, cook, blacksmith, or whatever with their characters spare time. At least this way they can go do something productive, like watch TV or do drugs.

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    "Probably the toughest time in anyone's life is when you have to murder a loved one because they're the devil." -Philips
  6. MMORPG + AI + Email = Management 101 by Tewley · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm waiting for the day I can deploy my MMORPG character using an AI, head off to work, and once and a while repond to his thoughtful emails when he encounters trouble in the game.

    I'll send him back a response telling him what to do, and if he screws it up, and doesn't get iced by some goblins or whatever, you can be sure it will come up at his next performance review.

  7. Reminds me of a Douglas Adams quote by nick255 · · Score: 5, Funny

    "The Electric Monk was a labor-saving device, like a dishwasher or a video recorder. Dishwashers washed tedious dishes for you, thus saving you the bother of washing them yourself, video recorders watched tedious television for you, thus saving you the bother of looking at it yourself; Electric Monks believed things for you, thus saving you what was becoming an increasingly onerous task, that of believing all the things the world expected you to believe. "

    An now we have AI's to play tedious computer games for us!

  8. That's nothing... by grytpype · · Score: 5, Funny

    I have developed an AI that will make your Slashdot posts for you. It just pastes big quotes from the article and throws in a few off-topic references to the DMCA.

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