The Quest for AI Game Designers | AI and Games #13

Game design is an intricate combination of common sense with video game aesthetics to create something fun and interesting for players. It is an entirely subjective process that varies depending on the type of game we are making and the experience the designer hopes to invoke. While we know good design when we see it, it often takes time for these to take shape in the final version of a game. So how do you translate this intrinsically creative process to a piece of artificially intelligent software? Can an AI be creative? Can it build something that resonates with humans? How do we quantify that? How can an AI know what might be 'cool' or 'interesting'? We take a look at a body of work in game development and research that is moving towards building the first generation of AI game designers: the games that use intelligent design systems as part of gameplay, tools that use AI to help human designers and AI systems that make entire games by themselves! -- Read the accompanying blog post on AI and Games: http://aiandgames.com/not-bad-for-a-human/ Follow AI and Games on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/AIandGames Like AI and Games on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/AIandGames Support AI and Games on Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/AI_and_Games Games Shown in this Video: Super Mario Maker (2015) Spelunky HD (2012) Borderlands 2 (2012) No Man's Sky (2016) Galactic Arms Race (2010) Mario Maker Level id's: #1 C517-0000-000F-9128 #2 9525-0000-003B-F371 Special thanks to the following researchers whose work is discussed in this video (in order I remembered to add you). Ben Weber Steve Dahlskog Matthew Guzdial Julian Togelius Gillian Smith Michael Cook Erin Hastings Kenneth O. Stanley Cameron Browne Alex. J. Champandard Michael Cook Gabriella Barros Antonios Liapis Becky Lavender Adam Summerville Staffan Bjork Georgios Yannakakis