When has game A.I showed real intelligence?

[ChickenZombie]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5oThB614qE&feature=relmfu


I'm not saying Assasins Creed has great AI, but this is a pretty amazing case. The guy talking is a little annoying, but the situation is hilarious.

 

[Jimmy T. Malice]

Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory has some pretty good AI too, which investigates your last known position and actually uses flashlights and flares to find you rather than wandering down a pitch-black corridor like in the first two games.

Half-Life 2's Combine Soldiers are an example of good AI restricted by the tight, linear level design. On more open battlefields, they actively flank and lay down suppressing fire.

 

[Nelson Goodrich]

F.E.A.R. The AI is awesome, and every fight feels different, because the enemies adapt to my actions. They flank you, trow grenades at you if you get cornered, and surprises you in many ways.

 

[RYjet911]

I always found FEAR quite tough due to its AI. I use the flank, they counter flank me through the main route.

At one section rather early on, I killed a guy from some rafters and jumped down, going through the main exit outdoors with two paths. Going down the longer side path, I met two guys, and just after I killed them, someone popped up behind me and killed me.

Upon respawning, I decided to go down the flank to take out the guy who got me. To my surprise, no one was there, at all. So heading back, all of a sudden the two guys I found around the side route had taken the shorter route, and being the unprepared person I am I died from having to reload.

Later on I had learned my lesson and was able to outsmart the AI, but I have to say, FEAR 1's AI was surprisingly good.

 

[Eric Staples]

A.I. has never shown real intelligence. That's why it's called ARTIFICIAL intelligence. It only does what the programmers tell it to. Honestly, I enjoy A.I. that knows when to run away from me or cracks funny jokes depending on what I do. I remember in Fear 2, when I started the game I would break windows in cars or something and my A.I. partner would freak out wondering why I was doing that. I laughed because there really wasn't any reason. I just wanted to see what would happen if I shot at a car.

Later on I had learned my lesson and was able to outsmart the AI, but I have to say, FEAR 1's AI was surprisingly good.

Definitely one of the reasons I am a fan of the series.

 

[Scarim Coral]

Yeah the Elites in Halo had great AI.
In Halo 2 somewhere in the earlier mission I think during the Warthog driving, I got off it and enter to enter this platform of some kind to fight them. At some point I was outside of platform into the openning and one of the Elites got into the gunner seat of the Warthog and actually gun me down since I was in the open. I thought they wouldn't understand how to use Earth weapons.

 

[veloper]

Chess comes closest. Even the free programmes are better than most casual players.

The computer games we usually talk about here have cheating AIs at best, to challenge the player.
The AIs always suck, when it comes to strategy and tactics, but sometimes make up for it with multitasking speed and with accuracy. When that's not enough AIs get more resources to waste and metagame information.

 

[omega 616]

Never. There is no real A.I in any game. It's just a bunch of scripted routines and responses, or predetermined actions that can give the ILLUSION of intelligence.

I've always had an issue with the use of the word A.I to describe how enemies behave. Also, I have issue with the way it is treated different in each game. Some games get slammed for bad enemy A.I, yet other games are let off the hook despite having atrocious A.I.

Look at the Call of Duty games - the enemies behave like IDIOTS - charging directly at me from hundreds of feet away firing a shotgun, or popping in and out of cover like a whack-a-mole carnival game. Yet no one talks about how idiotic the "A.I" in these games behave. The combine in Half-Life are similarly stupid. They never retreat - unless you throw a grenade - and more often than not, they'll just STAND there getting shot to death. Fallout New Vegas has stupid enemies as well: If I sneak attack and kill an enemy, more often than not his companion will be "cautious" for a few seconds then go right back to being completely unaware of any danger! "Dude, your friend's head just exploded, and now you're going to nonchalantly stand right next to his corpse, oblivious to any potential danger?!" is what I said when this first happened in FO:NV. Also, if enemies were truly intelligent, surely they'd put the facility on lockdown the very instant you killed an enemy, and they would be searching for the killer for literally hours! That has always bothered me in MGS games - you kill 2 or 4 guards in the first section, and the others in the rest of the level don't care or bother to check in on their radio! They also seem to lose all interest whenever Snake or Raiden escapes through a door. That's ludicrous.

I'm not singling out CoD or Half life or Fallout or MGS for bad enemy A.I. I actually love all those games. I love CoD, Half Life, Fallout and MGS. I'm just using them as an example to show how even the best games don't have smart enemies.

True A.I in games will not happen until they actually invent A.I. Until then, it's just a bunch of scripted movements, canned lines and predetermined actions.

So what would you call the computer that was taught basic chess and after a few games with a grandmaster was beating him pretty easily, till I think the grandmaster said "it's cheating"?

Sounds pretty intelligent to me, till it got cut into bits and sold as a telemarketer and for dealing with airline tickets bought online, if I remember right.

A.I wars seems to have the best in game A.I, some of the things I have seen that game do is quite awesome.

 

[zehydra]

AI can show intelligence, but that's reflective of the intelligence of the programmer, not the machine. The machine cannot be intelligent.

 

[Mark Flanagan]

I've really only encountered great AI in Halo:Reach and Rainbow 6 Vegas, both of which have been mentioned. I'm looking forward to Deus Ex HR's take on AI as I've heard good things.