Games That Design Themselves 162
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destinyland writes "MIT's Media Lab is building 'a game that designs its own AI agents by observing the behavior of humans.' Their ultimate goal? 'Collective AI-driven agents that can interact and converse with humans without requiring programming or specialists to hand-craft behavior and dialogue.' With a similar project underway by a University of California professor, we may soon see radically different games that can 'react with human-like adaptability to whatever situation they're thrust into.'"
Ragequit (Score:5, Funny)
I can see it now.
Just before loosing, the AI will suddenly shout "RAGEQUIT" and disconnect, thus denying you points for winning.
Me too! (Score:4, Funny)
switch (last_player_action) {
case QUIT:
exit(0);
default:
move_pitiful_player_char(last_player_action.direction, LUDICROUS_SPEED);
ai.queue.append(last_player_action);
ai.queue.append(new_action(ACTION_SAY_TO, player, "quit following me!"));
}
Turing Test won with Artificial Stupidity (Score:5, Funny)
Artificial intelligence came a step closer this weekend when an MIT computer game, which learnt from imitating humans on the Internet [today.com], came within five percent of passing the Turing Test, which the computer passes if people cannot tell between the computer and a human.
The winning conversation was with competitor LOLBOT:
The human tester said he couldn't believe a computer could be so mind-numbingly stupid.
LOLBOT has since been released into the wild to post random abuse, hentai manga and titty shots to 4chan, after having been banned from YouTube for commenting in a perspicacious and on-topic manner.
LOLBOT was also preemptively banned from editing Wikipedia. "We don't consider this sort of thing a suitable use of the encyclopedia," sniffed administrator WikiFiddler451, who said it had nothing to do with his having been one of the human test subjects picked as a computer.
"This is a marvellous achievement, and shows great progress toward goals I've worked for all my life," said Professor Kevin Warwick of the University of Reading, confirming his status as a system failing the Turing test.
Re:Ragequit (Score:5, Funny)
I herd u leik tentacle pr0n
Go on..
Crap (Score:2, Funny)
What do we do when they become self-aware? (Score:4, Funny)
http://xkcd.com/117/ [xkcd.com]
Blast From the Past (Score:4, Funny)
Skynet... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Ragequit (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah, things like this would happen, but also, how easy would it be for a small but dedicated group of pranksters to deliberately behave in odd, amusing or offensive ways to train the AIs? AI09 says "I herd u leik tentacle pr0n"
I thought you said odd...
Re:It can never be human like... (Score:3, Funny)
I we humans
Except when it comes to using the English language, apparently.
Re:It can never be human like... (Score:4, Funny)
Shit, when I played WoW I spent lots of time trying to get a /follow train to completely encircle Ironforge.
Never got a full train (a circle of people following each other, where the "engine" eventually is close to the "caboose" and does a /follow on them) though...
Re:What do we do when they become self-aware? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Ragequit (Score:3, Funny)
This already happens. My wife plays Age of Empires II a lot, and the AI almost always resigns when it's clear my wife is going to win (even if the AI still has a fair amount of its force still intact).
Re:Skynet... (Score:3, Funny)
I'm not sure what's worse... that you could write that without collapsing, or that I could actually hear it in a perfect valley girl voice.
Re:Mister Anderson, welcome back. We MISSED you. (Score:3, Funny)
I'd say something snarky, but that would require effort.
Re:Ragequit (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Blast From the Past (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Engineering Project (Score:3, Funny)