A few years ago I went full-blown DVORAK for a few months. I really liked it, but I ended up switching back to QWERTY. Here are the two problems I had:
1) Shortcut keys (control-z, control-x, control-c, etc..) are all over the freaking place in DVORAK.
(If there was some way to do DVORAK for normal typing and switch back to QWERTY when control/alt/command are held down, then that would probably be cool. I don't know of any way to do that though)
2) Other people. If I've been typing DVORAK for weeks, and I try to use someone's QWERTY computer, I turn into a retarded monkey. Similarly, anyone that tries to use my computer turns into a retarded monkey.
But if a wide-spread adoption of DVORAK ever breaks out, I am willing and ready!
And this is news, why? If enough people would be interested to hear about something, then it's news. Personally I was interested. But sorry that we are boring you!
The important think to know about AI in games is it's not "AI". It's scripts or code that simulates scripts. There's no neural nets or anything else because we can't get the power for a neural net in an active game. In chess we can but then chess no longer is fun unless we tone down the "intellegence".
Hmmm. If I write a neural net program, how is that different than what you call "scripts or code"? It's still just code.
And the best chess algorithms (which you seem to claim are "real AI") are just search algorithms that search 30 moves into the future (with pruning)
You're making a distinction between "real AI" and "not real AI", when really there is no distinction. If a system can solve a problem intelligently then it's AI, regardless of the algorithm.
There *is* a distinction between "human-like AI" (neural nets) and other kinds of AI, but we'd be foolish to assume that human-like intelligence is the only kind of intelligence.
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A few years ago I went full-blown DVORAK for a few months. I really liked it, but I ended up switching back to QWERTY. Here are the two problems I had:
1) Shortcut keys (control-z, control-x, control-c, etc..) are all over the freaking place in DVORAK.
(If there was some way to do DVORAK for normal typing and switch back to QWERTY when control/alt/command are held down, then that would probably be cool. I don't know of any way to do that though)
2) Other people. If I've been typing DVORAK for weeks, and I try to use someone's QWERTY computer, I turn into a retarded monkey. Similarly, anyone that tries to use my computer turns into a retarded monkey.
But if a wide-spread adoption of DVORAK ever breaks out, I am willing and ready!
And this is news, why?
If enough people would be interested to hear about something, then it's news. Personally I was interested. But sorry that we are boring you!
The important think to know about AI in games is it's not "AI". It's scripts or code that simulates scripts. There's no neural nets or anything else because we can't get the power for a neural net in an active game. In chess we can but then chess no longer is fun unless we tone down the "intellegence".
Hmmm. If I write a neural net program, how is that different than what you call "scripts or code"? It's still just code.
And the best chess algorithms (which you seem to claim are "real AI") are just search algorithms that search 30 moves into the future (with pruning)
You're making a distinction between "real AI" and "not real AI", when really there is no distinction. If a system can solve a problem intelligently then it's AI, regardless of the algorithm.
There *is* a distinction between "human-like AI" (neural nets) and other kinds of AI, but we'd be foolish to assume that human-like intelligence is the only kind of intelligence.