One approach that has been more successful and easier to integrate than machine learning is Monte Carlo based systems. That's what the latest Go AIs use and th

One approach that has been more successful and easier to integrate than machine learning is Monte Carlo based systems. That's what the latest Go AIs use and they are making big strides. It's powers various card game AIs, here's the developer talking about it: http://hfog.blogspot.com/2010_01_01_archive.html http://hfog.blogspot.com/2010_01_01_archive.html Though this absolutely brutal Race for the Galaxy AI was generated using machine learning: http://www.keldon.net/rftg/ http://www.keldon.net/rftg/ He talks about it in this thread: http://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/438698/race-for-the-galaxy-ai/page/37 http://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/438698/race-for-the-gala... [quote]Some of the AI neural nets for the Brink of War are only partially-trained; the AI performance in big games is way too slow and takes weeks to train. I'll need to fix that both so that players won't have to wait and to improve training speed.[/quote] For "true" AI in games, check out Steve Grand's work: http://grandroids.com/ http://grandroids.com/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XLJuDV03Mw&feature=youtu.be http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XLJuDV03Mw&feature=youtu...