Best way to learn AI

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April 08, 2003 01:51 PM

Hello all! I want to learn some basic AI programming and scripting. What should I learn? And what is a good website to learn it. Don''t flame me for being lazy. A Busy Guy

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IADaveMark

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April 08, 2003 02:34 PM

Start with the "Articles & Resources" section here. There are all sorts of documents explaining and illustrating things.

Dave Mark - President and Lead Designer
Intrinsic Algorithm - "Reducing the world to mathematical equations!"

Dave Mark - President and Lead Designer of Intrinsic Algorithm LLC
Professional consultant on game AI, mathematical modeling, simulation modeling
Co-founder and 10 year advisor of the GDC AI Summit
Author of the book, Behavioral Mathematics for Game AI
Blogs I write:
IA News - What's happening at IA | IA on AI - AI news and notes | Post-Play'em - Observations on AI of games I play

"Reducing the world to mathematical equations!"

Ferretman

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April 11, 2003 08:42 PM

And then, when you think you''ve learned enough that you''re itching to try something, download any of the many freeware/shareware games that let you "roll your own" AI and try it. Doesn''t matter if it''s bad the first time out...it probably will be. But the important thing is that you try something practical. (You can also modify AIs for any variety of commercial games if you want; Quake 2 and HalfLife come to mind as excellent platforms for experimentation.)

90% of game AI is theory; the other 90% is hard practice.

Ferretman

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From the High Mountains of Colorado

Ferretman
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From the High Mountains of Colorado
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IADaveMark

3,839

April 12, 2003 09:02 AM

Oh good... that means I''m about 80% done.

Dave Mark - President and Lead Designer
Intrinsic Algorithm - "Reducing the world to mathematical equations!"

Dave Mark - President and Lead Designer of Intrinsic Algorithm LLC
Professional consultant on game AI, mathematical modeling, simulation modeling
Co-founder and 10 year advisor of the GDC AI Summit
Author of the book, Behavioral Mathematics for Game AI
Blogs I write:
IA News - What's happening at IA | IA on AI - AI news and notes | Post-Play'em - Observations on AI of games I play

"Reducing the world to mathematical equations!"

starstriker1

245

April 12, 2003 03:23 PM

lol

www.gameai.com comes to mind. I found it to be a very good site for information on game AI.

capn_midnight

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April 12, 2003 08:35 PM

www.generation5.org has some good articles on Artificial Life and Genetic Algorithms, as well as some other topics.

Some topics to google:
Finite State Machines
Genetic Algorithms
Neural Networks
Fuzzy Logic

that should get you well on your way into "swamped".

[Formerly "capn_midnight". See some of my projects. Find me on twitter tumblr G+ Github.]

capn_midnight

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April 13, 2003 10:19 AM

I almost forgot about JRobots, a programming contest based in Java, but easy enough for C/C++ programmers to figure out.
The purpose of the game is to program the AI for a robot, and all the robots compete against each other over a month for supremecy. It''s really fun to watch.

[Formerly "capn_midnight". See some of my projects. Find me on twitter tumblr G+ Github.]

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