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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. Coral Cache by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Slashdotted before it even went live. Here is a working link. Downloads are currently at 511, I hope their counter has more than 9 bits...

  2. Not at all new by Digital+Avatar · · Score: 5, Informative

    This isn't entirely a new idea. CROBOTS, for example, put one in the position of designing AIs that control tanks and then pits them against one another in an arena.