Computer Game AI: Can they act human?

Robots will own the future…

Yes they can apparently, according to Jeffrey Matlauf from Eurogamer.  A panel of judges were fooled by artifical intelligence programs created by scientists from Austin’s University of Texas and Romania when observing players in Unreal Tournament 2004.

The scientists took out top honours of the 2K Games Botprize, which fields human and AI players interacting.  Amazingly, the AI bots that won, were judged more human than the human players.  Read into that what you will.

Head over to Eurogamer to get all the details