Source: https://archive.ph/Mrnth
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A snippet from a New York Times article shared on tumblr. It says:
"Most experts acknowledge that a takeover by artificial intelligence is coming for the video game industry within the next five years, and executives have already started preparing to restructure their companies in anticipation. After all, it was one of the first sectors to deploy A.I. programming in the 1980s, with the four ghosts who chase Pac-Man each responding differently to the player's real-time movements.".
The post has the caption: "Is this seriously the level of journalism the NYT now tolerates."
I'm sceptical about AI programming Pacman, but it's fairly obvious that the New York Times is leaning into AI journalism ..
Not that long ago the algorithms that controlled the enemies in video was called AI, that's what they trying to mislead with.
I've been calling it enemy behaviour since the first time I programmed one like 15 years ago. AI was never the right word for how game npcs and enemies work but it stuck anyway 😞
When I was at computer toucher school at about the start of the century, under the moniker AI were taught (I think) fuzzy logic, incremental optimization and graph algorithms, and neural networks.
AI is a sci-fi trope far more than it ever was a well-defined research topic.
@Architeuthis
I took an "AI" class in college around ninety-dickety-3 and it was basically just a LISP class.
I dropped it because the instructor would constantly get a bit of foam in the corner of his mouth and I couldn't even.