Game AI Pro

For AI researcher Game AI is like porn. It's cheap tricks and obviously fake but oddly fascinating. Sometimes you find a new trick you want to try in real life.

Marvin Minsky once said "I bet the human brain is a kludge." If I had to bet, I would say that human brain is full of dirty tricks, incomplete solutions, shortcuts and artificially limited problem spaces evolved to pick berries and avoid tigers, not to understand the world. Combining many tricks together can create illusion of generality that is very convincing.

Re: Game AI Pro

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Post by The_mboga_real » Sun, Feb 02, 2020, 2:59 PM UTC

Great work! Have you considered looking into human gaming practices that border on the unethical and unfair?

Re: Game AI Pro

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Post by thebrain » Sun, Feb 02, 2020, 3:09 PM UTC

Download it all with

wget -r -A.pdf http://www.gameaipro.com/

wget -r -A.zip http://www.gameaipro.com/

Re: Game AI Pro

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Post by fxtentacle » Sun, Feb 02, 2020, 3:09 PM UTC

What a generous gift :)

And even though they gave a talk about in in 2015, their "Simplest AI Trick in the Book" is still not implemented by some games released nowadays.

In case you don't know it, it's:

0.2s reaction time for aiming

+ 0.4s reaction time for yes/no decisions

+ additional delay for ambiguity, surprise, or limited visibility

I wholeheartedly agree with this advice. Just seeing your opponent taking a moment to think makes whatever it is they do so much more convincing.

Re: Game AI Pro

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Post by fxtentacle » Sun, Feb 02, 2020, 3:11 PM UTC

thebrain wrote: post #7

Download it all with wget -r -A.pdf http://www.gameaipro.com/ wget -r -A.zip http://www.gameaipro.com/

That seems a bit rude to me, especially since they

a) sell PDF ebooks

and

b) explicitly say that you are not supposed to re-upload the content elsewhere.

Re: Game AI Pro

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Post by oliwarner » Sun, Feb 02, 2020, 3:18 PM UTC

fxtentacle wrote: post #9

thebrain wrote: post #7

Download it all with wget -r -A.pdf http://www.gameaipro.com/ wget -r -A.zip http://www.gameaipro.com/

That seems a bit rude to me, especially since they a) sell PDF ebooks and b) explicitly say that you are not supposed to re-upload the content elsewhere.

Why? They've made this all available, why is grabbing it all in increase your own convenience (eg offline reading, searching) rude?