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I’ve watched artificial intelligence develop for around 25 years.  My first exposure being mushrooms.  Not the edible sometimes hallucinogenic kind either.  (That was many years later) No I’m talking about the mushrooms with the deadly grin that I would spend many hours through childhood avoiding at all costs lest I find myself repeating the same nightmare of headaches from the constant brick breaking, maze wandering and castle storming that was…. Super Mario Bros.

Older now.  The mushrooms have become enemy soldiers but the headache remains.  Maybe its the exposure to the TV.

The A.I. is different now. It responds and changes to its environment more readily.  Moving to get in better positions to kill. Still not too smart. Movements and decisions become repetitive so that once you figure out the pattern you can influence what the NPCs on the screen are going to do.  Now games have difficulty levels but this is not better A.I. within the game just  less forgiveness for my run and gun playing style.

With every game , at least the good ones, the A.I. gets more and more advanced. Soon I will have to lock the d0ors of my house in FallOut3 for fear of the less trustworthy NPCs that may take advantage of my breaks away from their world.  Many more and much longer than they were when I was younger because of better responsibilities.  Soon however my son and I will both be in a fight to save the world against whatever faction or race is trying to take over the planet.  My son is 3 now and enjoys the Wii with his mother and I.  Co-Op wargames won’t be far and taking into account Moore’s Law I’m gonna need all the help I can get.

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