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AI Researchers, Video Games Are Your Friends!

Julian Togelius

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Abstract

If you are an artificial intelligence researcher, you should look to video games as ideal testbeds for the work you do. If you are a video game developer, you should look to AI for the technology that makes completely new types of games possible. This chapter lays out the case for both of these propositions. It asks the question "what can video games do for AI", and discusses how in particular general video game playing is the ideal testbed for artificial general intelligence research. It then asks the question "what can AI do for video games", and lays out a vision for what video games might look like if we had significantly more advanced AI at our disposal. The chapter is based on my keynote at IJCCI 2015, and is written in an attempt to be accessible to a broad audience.

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in Studies in Computational Intelligence Studies in Computational Intelligence, Volume 669 2017. Springer
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DOI
doi:10.1007/978-3-319-48506-5_1
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cs.AIArtificial Intelligence

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  1. Ask HN: Building a game for AI Research 1 comment

    • not exactly what you asked for, but if youre looking for a gentle academic introduction to the intersection of ai and games, i recommend [ AI Researchers, Video Games Are Your Friends!](https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.01608)

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