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Games

Looks like computer games are the most popular by far. This doesn't suprise me, since the computer regularly beats me at warcraft 3 and even the most rudimentary chess game on my electronic organiser beats me easily.

The trouble is that a lot of the AI used in games doesn't translate to the real world. You can't take the algorithm from a game and install it into a robot and have it do household chores like the Sims. Games programmers often use tricks and perceptual shortcuts which would be completely implausible in reality.

There are a few games where learning and adaptation is part of the design, but in the main the computer games of today operate in exactly the same way as some of the first games I ever played in the early 1980s. The computer typically uses a fixed strategy, and if you can find its weakness you can beat it every time. It doesn't adapt to your playing style, or learn from its mistakes.

- Bob

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Sunday 19 January, 18:19
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