Game AI Pro 3

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The Illusion of Intelligence

Steve Rabin

1.1    Introduction

1.2    Why the Illusion Works

1.3    Selling the Illusion

1.4    Conclusion

References

1.1  Introduction

The secret is out. Game AI is seldom about any deep intelligence but rather about the illusion of intelligence. Often we are trying to create believable human behavior, but the actual intelligence that we are able to program is fairly constrained and painfully brittle. Yet, we struggle to put up a good show and strive to keep up the illusion.

Well, maybe we should be a little more purposeful and directly work on propping up the illusion, instead of shoring up the crumbling intelligence. Maybe there are tricks that we can use to fool the players into believing there is real intelligence ...