Scientists create game-playing AIs that are indistinguishable from humans
Scientists at Austin’s University of Texas and Romania have created game-playing artificial intelligences that fooled a panel of judges into believing they were human based on their behaviour in Unreal Tournament 2004, Phys.org has reported.The winners of 2K Games’s Botprize – a competition to build the most human-like AI – at the IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games’ were AIs UT^2 and MirrorBot. The former was created by University of Texas professor Risto Miikkulainen alongside doctoral students Jacob Schrum and Igor Karpov, while the latter was programmed by Romanian computer scientist Mihai Polceanu. Both parties split the $7000 prize.”The idea is to evaluate how we can make game bots, which are non-player characters (NPCs) controlled by AI algorithms, appear as human as possible,” explained Miikkulainen.Read more…
