AI Researchers Produce New Kind of PC Game

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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Re:Or perhaps...

[pete-classic]

This isn't meant as a flame, and I apologize in advance for anything that follows that seems like a flame. The questions that follow are intended to stimulate thought and discussion, not to inflame your temper :-)

What do you base your statement on?

Was it an off-the cuff comment, or did you seriously consider it before posting?

Do you think that war is ever necessary or appropriate?

If you found yourself in a "him or me" situation, through no fault of your own, would you choose a strangers life over your own?

I hope I've been civil. I hope you reciprocate :-)

-Peter