Three next-gen AI demos at GDC 2010
Gadget news Today about GDC 2010 Event showing three next-gen AI.Richard Evans of Maxis and EA fame was the AI lead on the Sims 3. His demoed two new types of AIs, the first–called
“Sim Tribe” allows developers to create their own societies. These societies can work on the same social rules as real cultures, meaning that if a player ventures into a different location, the other nonplayable characters (NPCs) will change their habits accordingly. In terms of the demo, this paradigm shift was with eating, which became a social taboo. This acted out comically as characters could not eat until everyone else was outside of viewing distance. AI system that runs specific parts of StarCraft’s game functions but works as one so that each component is aware of what the other one is doing.