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AI Researchers, Video Games Are Your Friends!
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.Comment: in Studies in Computational Intelligence Studies in Computational
Intelligence, Volume 669 2017. Springe
Deep learning for video game playing
In this article, we review recent Deep Learning advances in the context of
how they have been applied to play different types of video games such as
first-person shooters, arcade games, and real-time strategy games. We analyze
the unique requirements that different game genres pose to a deep learning
system and highlight important open challenges in the context of applying these
machine learning methods to video games, such as general game playing, dealing
with extremely large decision spaces and sparse rewards
Underdogs and superheroes: Designing for new players in public space
We are exploring methods for participatory and public involvement of new 'players' in the design space. Underdogs & Superheroes involves a game-based methodology ā a series of creative activities or games ā in order to engage people experientially, creatively, and personally throughout the design process. We have found that games help engage usersā imaginations by representing reality without limiting expectations to what's possible here and now; engaging experiential and personal perspectives (the 'whole' person); and opening the creative process to hands-on user participation through low/no-tech materials and a widely-understood approach. The methods are currently being applied in the project Underdogs & Superheroes, which aims to evolve technological interventions for personal and community presence in local public spaces
Microscopic activity patterns in the Naming Game
The models of statistical physics used to study collective phenomena in some
interdisciplinary contexts, such as social dynamics and opinion spreading, do
not consider the effects of the memory on individual decision processes. On the
contrary, in the Naming Game, a recently proposed model of Language formation,
each agent chooses a particular state, or opinion, by means of a memory-based
negotiation process, during which a variable number of states is collected and
kept in memory. In this perspective, the statistical features of the number of
states collected by the agents becomes a relevant quantity to understand the
dynamics of the model, and the influence of topological properties on
memory-based models. By means of a master equation approach, we analyze the
internal agent dynamics of Naming Game in populations embedded on networks,
finding that it strongly depends on very general topological properties of the
system (e.g. average and fluctuations of the degree). However, the influence of
topological properties on the microscopic individual dynamics is a general
phenomenon that should characterize all those social interactions that can be
modeled by memory-based negotiation processes.Comment: submitted to J. Phys.
Modeling two-language competition dynamics
During the last decade, much attention has been paid to language competition
in the complex systems community, that is, how the fractions of speakers of
several competing languages evolve in time. In this paper we review recent
advances in this direction and focus on three aspects. First we consider the
shift from two-state models to three state models that include the possibility
of bilingual individuals. The understanding of the role played by bilingualism
is essential in sociolinguistics. In particular, the question addressed is
whether bilingualism facilitates the coexistence of languages. Second, we will
analyze the effect of social interaction networks and physical barriers.
Finally, we will show how to analyze the issue of bilingualism from a game
theoretical perspective.Comment: 15 pages, 5 figures; published in the Special Issue of Advances in
Complex Systems "Language Dynamics
On the Foundations of the Theory of Evolution
Darwinism conceives evolution as a consequence of random variation and
natural selection, hence it is based on a materialistic, i.e. matter-based,
view of science inspired by classical physics. But matter in itself is
considered a very complex notion in modern physics. More specifically, at a
microscopic level, matter and energy are no longer retained within their simple
form, and quantum mechanical models are proposed wherein potential form is
considered in addition to actual form. In this paper we propose an alternative
to standard Neodarwinian evolution theory. We suggest that the starting point
of evolution theory cannot be limited to actual variation whereupon is
selected, but to variation in the potential of entities according to the
context. We therefore develop a formalism, referred to as Context driven
Actualization of Potential (CAP), which handles potentiality and describes the
evolution of entities as an actualization of potential through a reiterated
interaction with the context. As in quantum mechanics, lack of knowledge of the
entity, its context, or the interaction between context and entity leads to
different forms of indeterminism in relation to the state of the entity. This
indeterminism generates a non-Kolmogorovian distribution of probabilities that
is different from the classical distribution of chance described by Darwinian
evolution theory, which stems from a 'actuality focused', i.e. materialistic,
view of nature. We also present a quantum evolution game that highlights the
main differences arising from our new perspective and shows that it is more
fundamental to consider evolution in general, and biological evolution in
specific, as a process of actualization of potential induced by context, for
which its material reduction is only a special case.Comment: 11 pages, no figure
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