A.I. in Video Games

.....Artificial Intelligence

...............A.I. in Video Games

A.I. has been used in game programming for a long time

Pong was one of the earliest games. It had some very simple AI, but it took 20 years before the game
started to winning regularly against really good players.

Many early games were text-based games. I played this one on the computer running my electron microprobe,
during my lunch hour at work. It was very annoying. I didn't feel very intelligent playing it, I don't know
whether the game was intelligent. But... it had a huge influence in video game design, partly because it was so
addictive. It is the first known example of interactive fiction.

Computer chess games, which are a type of expert system, was an early form of AI in gaming. We looked at
expert systems in the last section.

15th Anniversary of Deep Blue's win against a Grand Master

Single player games with an enemy started coming out in the 70s. Only towards the end of the 70s did
games start start using AI techniques to make the games more interesting by changing in-game events
based on what the player did.

. space invaserd

One of the first of these was Space Invaders, which changed in-game
events depending on player inputs.

This simple game makes you and the in-game characters think. Each character is autonomous, and has a
knowledge base. Each agent also has algorithms that let it reason
within the knowledge base. If the character sees something that it
thinks might be important, it can decide to ask a question about it -
the conversations are not scripted.

The game is designed for research on how to improve NPC behavior.

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In your school Google Drive account, drag the "A.I. in Video Games" document
into your AI folder. Open it, and answer questions 1 and 2.

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This is a dreadful, destructive game, carmageddon but the narrator explains how the player's actions change the actions of in-game characters.

Let's move on to more real AI in games. The creator of a Paintball video game describes how they
plan to use AI to increase game interest.

This is a discussion of the Artificial Intelligence used in Skyrim. skyrim

And an article on the increased autonomy of Skyrim NPCs

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Go to the Google Doc, and answer questions 3 and 4.

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But it works from the other direction too - here is an explanation of How computers learn to play Nintendo games.

Here's a description focusing on Mario..

. pacman

Here is Google's Deep Mind learning to play a game.

This AI learned to play Cuphead.

This shows another system that automatically creates artificial intelligence. It uses an evolutionary algorithm
to evolve a neural network that can control any kind of character. What happens here is that the system makes
random changes to its own code, and then uses the versions that seems to work best, making further changes
to those versions. This is different from deliberately programming artificial intelligence into game characters.

Open AI5 wins in DOTA These bots are programmed to play this game autonomously.

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Go to the Google Doc, and answer questions 5 and 6.

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Artificial intelligence is being used to generate interesting new levels in video games.

angelina

And we can go even farther - an artificial intelligence named Angelina creates video games.
Angelina is short for "A Novel Game-Evolving Labrat I've Named ANGELINA"

This video shows one of ANGELINA's games.

They aren't all weird, though.

Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology developed an algorithm that 'watched' hours of people
playing classic simple video games. It used the key features of those games to create its own games.

Killer Bounce is one of them.

How does Video Game A.I. work?

But now, we are moving on to Virtual Reality games. A step beyond the Wii.

Here is VR cricket

Driving in VR

Valve is making VR games.

And take a look at the Virtualizer.

The full body Teslasuit

And this takes it a step farther than the above two: Axon VR Exosuit

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Go to the Google Doc, and answer questions 7,8 and 9

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