Learn how reinforcement learning is being used to upend traditional methods of creating video game AI

Reinforcement learning stands to become the new gold standard in creating intelligent video game AI. The chief advantage of reinforcement learning(RL) over traditional game AI methods is that, rather than hand-crafting the AI’s logic using complicated behavior trees, with RL one simply rewards the behavior they wish the AI to manifest and the agent learns by itself to perform the necessary sequence of actions to achieve the desired behavior. In essence, this is how one might teach a dog to perform tricks using a food reward.

The RL approach to game AI can be used to train a variety of strategic behaviors, including path finding, NPC attack and defense, and almost every behavior a human is capable of exhibiting while playing a video game. Read More