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Artifical Intelligence in Gaming
Background:

Intelligence is defined by the knowledge that humans and animals have, that makes them think logically and act on situations. Similarity, the same can be said about machines because of the use of Artificial Intelligence. The term Artificial Intelligence means the theory that technology and machine can work and think like humans in the world. The classification of AI is intelligence demonstrated by machines, in difference to the intelligence exhibited by humans and animals. In computer science AI research is defined as the study of "intelligent agents": any device that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximize its chance of successfully achieving its goals. Colloquially, the term "artificial intelligence" is applied when a machine mimics "cognitive" functions that humans associate with other human minds, such as "learning" and "problem solving". (Wikipedia, 2018) In the technology world, the word AI is mostly known for its usage in robots and computers and they can think as like humans and animals. AI in machines are surprisingly complex, they use productive components that help them think and act with logic such as reasoning, perception, problem solving, language- understanding, and learning such as in gaming, AI can play well as much as a human player can. As humans and animals have brains, AI has a machine learning brain that is created by IT architecture. Kevin Kelly (2017), explains how an AI’s brain works saying, “Thinking is an inherently parallel process, billions of neurons firing simultaneously to create synchronous waves of cortical computation. To build a neural network--the primary architecture of AI software--also requires many different processes to take place simultaneously. Each node of a neural network loosely imitates a neuron in the brain--mutually interacting with its neighbors to make sense of the signals it receives. To recognize a spoken word, a program must be able to hear all the phonemes in relation to one another; to identify an image, it needs to see every pixel in the context of the pixels around it--both deeply parallel tasks.”(Kelly, 2017) The AI’s mind is created through a series of algorithms which causes the machine to act on commands based on what its algorithm is on the software, meaning there are many “if” statement programming in the category of commands that these AI follows. AI has become an ethical topic that researchers touch base on due to the complexity of a machine could be created to act as a living being with a “brain.” People have benefited from these machines because they help provide additional assistance with particular interests such as with their own cell phones because cell phones have AI features in them too which is why AI has become more popular. In gaming, players believe this could be a big on the gaming community such as people have already played against AI machines in games like chess. As people believe that these machines can have a place in communicating with humans, gamers have seen the evolution of NPC’s coming to life when playing against an AI that can think and play proficient like a human player.