Computer Games Start Thinking

from the who-needs-the-Turing-test? dept

An interesting article from the BBC looking at how computer game AI is getting smarter (though, I imagine, not in Greece where politicians are just getting dumber, instead). The article discusses how new games are taking ideas of various philosophers and putting them into the artificial intelligence that manages how computer controlled characters act. Even the game creators have been amazed at some of the results, such as rival biker gangs getting into a fight which was not preprogrammed into the game.