game ai introduction

• Strong AI: Create systems that mimic human thought processes.
• Weak AI: Solve real-world problems.

They both don’t care much about the hardware of spending time, instead care about the final result.

1. Game AI has to work with limited resources.
2. Game AI should be entertaining, make player feel clever, sly, cunning and powerful.

If the player believes the agent he’s playing against is intelligent, then it is intelligent.

Therefore our goal is to design agents that provide the illusion of intelligence.

Several approaches:

1. Carefully increase the difficulty.
2. Provide the player with some visual/auditory clues.
3. Not let the cloak of illusion slip. (e.g. AI running to walls)