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IEEE Spectrum Surveys Current Games' AI Technology

Posted by timothy on from the how-about-a-nice-game-of-chess dept.

orac2 writes " IEEE Spectrum has an article on the AI technologies used in the current crop of video games. State machines, learning algorithms, cheating, smart terrain, etc are discussed. Game developers interviewed include Richard Evans, of Black and White fame, who talks about Lionhead's upcoming Dmitri project and Soren Johnson who created Civ III's AI."

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  1. Best quote by Rufus211 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    "people want a good single-player experience to practice before they go on-line because they feel stupid when they get their butt kicked by a 12-year-old in Ohio," laughs Michael Zarozinski.

  2. Re:Sheesh by Goalie_Ca · · Score: 0, Redundant

    to bad that its if( strcmp(humanPlayer,"Winning") ) cheat();

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  3. Re:Sheesh by NintenDoctor · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Not in JavaScript. Must everyone always assume that such pseudo-programming is in their favorite language?

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  4. Re:Ethics, IP, amd AI by poiu · · Score: 2, Redundant

    no an ai will not be considered alive until it can sucessfully judge a turing test (i.e. tell if a someone is a human or a machine) as well as pass it.

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