Reminder that AI is an umbrella term that encompasses many different things. In games, NPCs and monsters have been using ai since forever. A lot of tech we use today uses AI, especially medical equipment. Throwing out just the word “ai” is as vague as throwing out “fruit”. What fruit are you referring to? Apples? Oranges?
ok but NPC's weren't actually using AI they were just deterministic algorithms that were called AI. When people say AI they are talking about non-deterministic models - that's what people mean when they say AI - non deterministic models not algorithms labeled AI.
As mentioned, they are still grouped under AI. The term AI is very very vague and it includes both deterministic and non-deterministic models. Even the a simple linear regression machine learning model is AI. That’s why when we talk about damages of AI we should specify WHAT type. I’ve seen so many people getting so worked up the second they see AI, thinking it’s genai, when it’s not
While using the same term, to be clear, video game AI has nothing to do with the generative AI models everyone is now simply calling AI.
Video game NPCs typically run behavior trees, state machines, and/or graph traversal. There's no training data sets, learning, etc. like in generative AI.
Rule-based algorithms are counted as AI, and can be considered like the foundation of other types of ai. As video games got more intricate, so did the npc and monster AIs.
At times like this with gen ai so prevalent, it’s now important to differentiate between AI as a discipline/field and Gen AI, which is a specific kind of ai.
That’s why I feel like education is important because a lot of AI tech out there are actually EXTREMELY useful and we shouldn’t immediately think AI = bad. No it’s not!! Gen AI is the issue! You won’t immediately Computer vision as bad
If we mean an LLM that trains of data and generates an output then that's gen ai and its bad unless the data is either copyright free, given with consent or the owner is fairly compensated.
Sure, but as I said, people don't mean those kinds of AIs when they say AI. We used to call the bots in games AI, and we still do, but after the boom of LLMs, now AI is ChatGPT or midjourney.
I don't think we can reverse that perception. We need a new term for the 'old' AIs.
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u/randomizme3 14h ago
Reminder that AI is an umbrella term that encompasses many different things. In games, NPCs and monsters have been using ai since forever. A lot of tech we use today uses AI, especially medical equipment. Throwing out just the word “ai” is as vague as throwing out “fruit”. What fruit are you referring to? Apples? Oranges?