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'Quake III Arena' Bots Reportedly Stop Fighting After 4-Year Match

18 points by speeder 13y ago

jcfrei 13y ago
it's ridiculous what kind of pseudo journalism makes it into forbes these days.
aviraldg 13y ago
The only winning move is not to play.
OliC 13y ago
This is simply not true. From John Carmack's Twitter: "Stock Quake 3 bots don't use neural networks, folks" (https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/352192259418103809 https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/352192259418103809)
dTal 13y ago
Even if it's not true, in some sense it doesn't matter. It makes for a lovely modern-day parable, and also a round-the-campfire sci-fi story.
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rainforest 13y ago
From John Carmack himself: the stock bots don't use neural nets [1]. It would be interesting to see what sort of emergent behaviour arises from bots that can adapt though. [1] : https://twitter.com/id_aa_carmack/status/352192259418103809 https://twitter.com/id_aa_carmack/status/352192259418103809
OGC 13y ago
Good god is that stupid. This originated on _4chan_ and has been thorougly debunked, because Quake 3 bots don't work like that. Fucking ridiculous.
wooptoo 13y ago
Another epic troll brought to you by 4chan.
ziko 13y ago
I'd like to see what's inside that 512MB file, though.
diggan 13y ago
"The story is based on a screenshot[0] taken from a forum and tweeted out by Mat Murray on Twitter." Yeah, it feels nice that a media company like Forbes is basing their stories on something like a screenshot from 4chan. [0] http://i.imgur.com/dx7sVXj.jpg http://i.imgur.com/dx7sVXj.jpg
- raymondduke 13y ago
  The guy that wrote this is a contributor to Forbes. Anyone can be a contributor to the site as long as they write a few stories that sound like they know what they're talking about.
onedognight 13y ago
This is obviously a joke, but the people at RAND used to run into this when doing war simulations for the US Military.
Cthulhu_ 13y ago
They stop fighting because some counter overflows, and there's no guard for it causing the application to crash. I'm sure there's smart people - or even Carmack himself - that can find the relevant code (actually, is the bot code open source or just the Quake 3 engine)?

18 points by speeder 13y ago

jcfrei 13y ago

it's ridiculous what kind of pseudo journalism makes it into forbes these days.

aviraldg 13y ago

The only winning move is not to play.

OliC 13y ago

This is simply not true. From John Carmack's Twitter: "Stock Quake 3 bots don't use neural networks, folks" (https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/352192259418103809 https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/352192259418103809)

dTal 13y ago

Even if it's not true, in some sense it doesn't matter. It makes for a lovely modern-day parable, and also a round-the-campfire sci-fi story.

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rainforest 13y ago

From John Carmack himself: the stock bots don't use neural nets [1]. It would be interesting to see what sort of emergent behaviour arises from bots that can adapt though. [1] : https://twitter.com/id_aa_carmack/status/352192259418103809 https://twitter.com/id_aa_carmack/status/352192259418103809

OGC 13y ago

Good god is that stupid. This originated on _4chan_ and has been thorougly debunked, because Quake 3 bots don't work like that. Fucking ridiculous.

wooptoo 13y ago

Another epic troll brought to you by 4chan.

ziko 13y ago

I'd like to see what's inside that 512MB file, though.

diggan 13y ago

"The story is based on a screenshot[0] taken from a forum and tweeted out by Mat Murray on Twitter." Yeah, it feels nice that a media company like Forbes is basing their stories on something like a screenshot from 4chan. [0] http://i.imgur.com/dx7sVXj.jpg http://i.imgur.com/dx7sVXj.jpg

raymondduke 13y ago
The guy that wrote this is a contributor to Forbes. Anyone can be a contributor to the site as long as they write a few stories that sound like they know what they're talking about.

onedognight 13y ago

This is obviously a joke, but the people at RAND used to run into this when doing war simulations for the US Military.

Cthulhu_ 13y ago

They stop fighting because some counter overflows, and there's no guard for it causing the application to crash. I'm sure there's smart people - or even Carmack himself - that can find the relevant code (actually, is the bot code open source or just the Quake 3 engine)?