The State of AI In Games

CowboyRobot writes "Carnegie Mellon researcher Alexander Nareyek has an article at ACM Queue describing how the role of graphics as the leading technology in gaming is being replaced by advancements in artificial intelligence. The author targets some game AI: 'Early milestone demonstrations for the publisher, press presentations, and other hype-generating events do not promote inclusion of a globally/consistently good AI, but instead focus on one or two 'absolutely unexpected but genius outcomes of revolutionary new and complex AI procedures' (did you spot the ironic tone?) that provide the necessary 'wows'.' He concludes by suggesting: 'we need to see more effort to make AI functionality available for the designers/artists.'"

Comments

A.I.

[Deliveranc3]

The biggest advance in artificial intelligence so far came when the reaper bot started saying things like.

"I destroy you"
"Cry to your mom. b!cyh"

etc. I mean that was most humanlike characteristic ever to be properly emulated.

Re:A.I.

[FooAtWFU]

There's a wonderful little bot I know of by the same guy who made the PieSpy Shakespeare diagrams. It's fairly impressive in its formulation of phrases, and even punctuates fairly well.

<Monty> Thunderbird's data? I am.
<Monty> if (thermostat == snot) { colouring magnifies isometric NBDuckBot;}
<Monty> s/got/go/
<Monty> mobibot currency 549.99 GBP sounds harder than I suspect it'll work server for lesbian bitch porn empire or what Amy likes the uk
<Monty> royal post man quacks at under-valued cucumber?

Pretty good... apparently he uses Markov chaining or something to learn from. He also hangs out on a lot of code-oriented channels.

Now imagine letting one of these loose on several servers for Counterstrike or something and seeing how well they can impersonate a real (l)user after a while. :)

Re:AI system from LoTR for mm games?

[MrScience]

The soldiers started out running away from battle? Sounds like they had to dumb it down for the final release. :P