Game AI's Existential Crisis (Part 1) | AI and Games

Game AI, the practice of implementing artificial intelligence to craft the experience of players in video games, is facing an existential crisis. - A crisis of confidence in technology. - A crisis that, at its heart, is at about perils of scale and complexity. - A crisis of handling risk in a land of the risk-averse. - A crisis of lost knowledge, and of forgotten values. - A crisis born of a niche that exists for a single purpose, in a world that seldom acknowledges its existence. Having spent a decade in this space, I fear for its survival. But in order to combat the issue, it needs to be …