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AI Researchers Produce New Kind of PC Game

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the learning-by-killing dept.

Ken Stanley writes "In an unusual demonstration of video game innovation with limited funding and resources, a mostly volunteer team of over 30 student programmers, artists, and researchers at the University of Texas at Austin has produced a new game genre in which the player interacively trains robotic soldiers for combat. Unlike most games today that use scripting for the AI, non-player-characters in NERO learn new tactics in real-time using advanced machine learning techniques. Perhaps projects such as this one will encourage the video game industry to begin to seek alternatives to simple scripted AI."

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  1. Re:University of Texas. by lordvdr · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    And as one of my old high school teachers taught me, it should be called Texas University. It isn't like it's the only University in Texas. :)

    Oh yeah, go Raiders!

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  2. Re:begin? by WhatAmIDoingHere · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Care to name one of them and give proof that you worked on it?

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  3. Please dupe by r00zky · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Please dupe this article when there's a torrent available and the Linux version is finished.
    Until then it's quite useless.

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  4. Re:University of Texas. by kfg · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    If it's UT anywhere but Austin, you say where.

    If, and only if, you are in the Austin area.

    I'm afraid that the world at large does not care about your frat boy inspired "We're better than them because we are us" rules.

    KFG