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A turn based game like Civ is the next milestone in AI I'm looking forward too. Researchers have focused on more popular games like DotA or StarCraft, but I wou
by Buttons840 6y ago
A turn based game like Civ is the next milestone in AI I'm looking forward too. Researchers have focused on more popular games like DotA or StarCraft, but I would be more impressed with an AI that could beat the best human at pure decision making in a turn based game like Civ.
- jkinudsjknds 6y agoIt's true there's a lot of ambiguity on whether the AI succeeds at "strategy" in Starcraft. But Civ would probably be an easy game for an AI to succeed at. Almost every iteration of Civ has had a fairly clear dominant strategy for the first large chunk of the game, and often the game ends before reaching the latter half of the game. How much adaptive strategizing really exists in the game? Notably, playing with a very competent AI that was trying to win the game probably wouldn't be fun for most players. Players don't like to imagine that their opponents are trying to win the game of Civ, they tend to imagine their opponents are leaders building a civilization for its own sake. When we criticize the AI in Civ, it's mostly due to dumb diplomacy (which designed to be fun, not cunning) and dumb military tactics (for which an exceptionally low bar is set). Both of these are fairly easy to remedy.
- spiritplumber 6y agoYou may enjoy a story in which such an AI (played by 4chan randos, at that) is pitted against the God of the Left Behind series. https://emlia.org/pmwiki/pub/web/LeftBeyond.TalesFromTheBeyond.html https://emlia.org/pmwiki/pub/web/LeftBeyond.TalesFromTheBeyo...