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togelius | 10 years ago | on: Video games are essential for inventing artificial intelligence

These two are both interesting and important research directions. They are indeed different but have significant overlap. That "game AI can already be easily written to win 100% of games" is plain wrong. It's true for some games, especially if you cheat by giving the AI access to information the human player does not have. But even in those cases it is often impossible. We are very far from playing at high human level in for example Go or StarCraft.

togelius | 10 years ago | on: Video games are essential for inventing artificial intelligence

So how exactly would we go about to make sure that no-one does research on AI? Which particular kinds of research would we ban? And how would we enforce it?

togelius | 10 years ago | on: Video games are essential for inventing artificial intelligence

It's hard to create believable AI in a first-person shooter. See: http://nn.cs.utexas.edu/?botprize2012

It's actually really hard to create well-performing AI in a first person shooter, unless you give it explicit access to the internal state of the game. See: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/login.jsp?tp=&arnumber=612949...

togelius | 10 years ago | on: Video games are essential for inventing artificial intelligence

I would say that progress on general AI can solve a lot of the problems we are facing. To take an obvious and down-to-earth example, let's say we "solve" logistics in the sense that we can transport things wherever we want, timely and cheaply. That would help us with a lot of the problems we are facing, such as hunger. And for solving logistics we essentially need the same skills we need as for solving game-playing.

togelius | 16 years ago | on: Ask HN: Mario AI, Google AI like contests ?

The new Mario AI contest is at http://www.marioai.org