Artificial
Intelligence and
Video Games
BY: JARAAD B. 5/20/17
ENG2420
What is Artificial Intelligence?
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Artificial Intelligence is a very complex concept. It basically is
intelligence that is processed and contained within technology or
machines.
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It is created by humans and it has been around for a very long time
and continues to improve and develop until this day.
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AI is something we deal with everyday, whether it be with shopping,
household uses, education or VIDEO GAMES.
MY Question…
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There are many questions I actually have about AI and also many
things I do want to learn about it as well.
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But one of my main questions I do have about it is how has it been
established in the world of video games and how does it continue
to develop in that aspect as it can affect players and how it
continually grows?
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The reason why I wanted to ask this question and learn more about
AI in terms of this aspect was because I been playing video games
for a while and why not, like who does not like video games?
Artificial Intelligence and video
games
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Throughout the years as video games have been created, players
would experience and feel different things. When we play games it
involves the use of our brains to overcome challenges that are
found within games.
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Like for example when playing games there could be puzzles,
challenges or even the enemies that you face are an example of
AI.
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These aspects challenges and affects our brain waves to think in a
manner in which could be the best possible solution in order to
overcome those obstacles. Like for example the puzzles you would
find in a game called God of War
AI in video games…
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Artificial intelligence in video games is not just how enemies do
certain actions or how players deal with situations. It is actually more
than that. It also is how data is being used and processed to make
games to be more enjoyable and fun for players.
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Back then when players would try to overcome these challenges
they would do so by adapting and learning the predictable
patterns so that they can push through, but now it is more different
and challenges players to use their brains more differently.
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According to the article Active Video Gaming Changes Brain
Waves it says: “Subjects who played the shooter video game
showed the greatest improvement on the visual attention task and
also exhibited significant changes in their brain waves. The
remaining subjects-included those who had played the puzzle
game- did not.”
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This shows that video game and AI can help affect the way players
think and apply what they learned in the real world because of the
fact that there brain waves were affected in that manner.
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As games continue to develop and improve, it continues to challenge
there cognitive and even physical abilities.
An example would be when a player plays first person shooters they are
required to learn about the maps, weapons and player types and
apply that in the situation as they compete against others who have to
do the same thing as well.
Also game patterns would follow a scripted design but as AI in this
concept continues to change, it tries to establish ways where it utilizes
more unpredictable patterns.
Like instead of getting killed by enemies in game and learning the way
they move and interact to beat them, now it is where the enemy won’t
display those same predictable patterns.
Like for example in the game Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor, when
you get killed by a enemy they can gain rank to be a captain and they
will remember you in the next encounter
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The way that improvements in AI within video games affects players
is that it can sometimes make them choose on decisions within
games rather than playing through a story that is written, like for
example there are games with morality choices like infamous which
affects how the story will be affected and the ending.
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It also affects a players sense and awareness and makes players
feel as though video games can be very realistic, like for example
when controlling a player and they move across a wall, you can
actually see their hand brushing against that wall.
Moving forward…
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Overall as the years past AI in video games continue to improve as
game developers try to incorporate more into the games and create
and introduce us to new concepts.
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They look for new ways to challenge players and I have learned a lot
about how AI in video games are developing and getting better.
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I learned that the improving AI in in games can help players get better
in certain things that pertain in real life like driving or other activities
compared to people who do not play video games. I also learned that
AI in games is actually more complex, like it can be ways the player
interacts within environment or even the graphics and mechanics
themselves because at first I thought it would be just the enemies you
fight against in games.
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The improving AI introduces players to new concepts and situations that
as they see the world of video games getting more advanced.
References
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https://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijcgt/2015/271296/
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http://www.makeusof.com/tag/future-videogame-ais-will-seriouslyfreak/
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https://psychcentral.com/news/2012/04/27/active-video-gamingchanges-brain-waves/37927.html
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http://www.bbc.com./news/technology-34255492
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https://www.giantbomb.com/artificial-intelligence/3015-218/
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https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/video-games-artificialintelligence-realistic-teach-ai-what-the-world-looks-like