Machine Learning Is Making Video Game Characters Smarter And Robots More Competent

Machine Learning Is Making Video Game Characters Smarter And Robots More Competent

For years, video game developers have used artificial intelligence to animate those characters encountered by a player, but non-playable characters, or NPCs, have been based on sets of rules coded by humans. Using the AI technology du jour, machine learning, future NPCs will program and reprogram their own rules, based on the experiences they encounter in games, in the process getting smarter the longer they play.