Custom UT Bots Pass “Turing Test”, Win BotPrize

[Nando]

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/09/28/custom-ut-bots-pass-turing-test-win-botprize/


now lets see how buys this stuff to put into their games AI. 

Phys are reporting that a University Of Texas team won a $7000 in a competition to create game bots that would pass as human. “The winning bots both achieved a humanness rating of 52 percent. Human players received an average humanness rating of only 40 percent. The two winning teams will split the $7,000 first prize,” says the Phys report. “When this ‘Turing test for game bots’ competition was started, the goal was 50 percent humanness,” the bot’s creator, Risto Miikkulainen, is quoted as saying. “It took us five years to get there, but that level was finally reached last week, and it’s not a fluke.” The bot mimicked humans by pursuing grudges, having poor aim at long range, and by using neural networks to “evolve” the bot’s behaviour towards something that would be optimal in the game’s environment.

Does anyone know of any games that use bots for language responses? I can’t think of any offhand, but it must be going on, and there must be an intriguing state of the art for the “real” Turing Test in games.

[soop]

TBH, if you could get away with it, it would be a perfect us

Start again.  OK, with FPS being so big right now, the MO of 90% (made up statistic) of gamers is to buy the latest CoD, and play the shit out of it online until the next big thing comes out.  They've cut single player campaigns so much, we're pretty much at the point of them not bothering anymore.  So I'd say in the 5 years they've spent developing this stuff, it's more or less redundant.

However, I think you've totally got a point with the text based stuff.  If you got it right, you could make an MMO experience like LA Noire, but have some important NPCs as actual PCs, so when you're trying to bluff people, interrogate etc...  It could actually be a real person.

God knows you'd have to think about it, but it could be great.

[Nando]

Well the first sentence was mine, the rest was from the article.

[soop]

Well the first sentence was mine, the rest was from the article.