Computer Games

• Another really big application of AI is computer games.
• In this case, AI often serves an advertising role.
• AI is frequently used to make agents in games.
• It uses planning, and other simple mechanisms.
• Learning, if ever used, is often very simple.
• Frequently, games have modes where you can play other humans, often over the internet.
• That's because the AI isn't good enough, or human like enough.
• The only person at MDX CS doing research is to some degree Peter Passmore.