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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. Geek Robots? by pin_gween · · Score: 5, Funny

    Oh hell, you know this will taken over by /.'ers AND do /.'ers know a damn thing about soldiering?

    Probably not, but beware -- you may just create a robotic system administrator/repairman. Don't put yourselves out of a job!!!

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  2. Re:University of Texas. by Fallingcow · · Score: 5, Funny

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

    If it's UT and it's anything but Unreal Tournament, you say what it is.

  3. Re:The problem with this... by dummyname12 · · Score: 5, Funny

    That kind of game may have a very sizeable market. My girlfriend seems to enjoy a game in which she turns me on and then leaves the room... heh heh... girlfriend... I almost kept a straight face...

  4. Re:Coral Cache by slashdotnickname · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is everyone growing retarded these days?

    http://everyone.com/growing.php?retarded=yes