{"id":30325,"date":"2016-01-25T18:50:18","date_gmt":"2016-01-25T23:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=30325"},"modified":"2016-01-25T18:50:18","modified_gmt":"2016-01-25T23:50:18","slug":"experienced-points-is-the-world-ready-for-deep-network-ai-opponents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=30325","title":{"rendered":"Experienced Points: Is the World Ready for Deep Network AI Opponents?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/articles\/view\/video-games\/columns\/experienced-points\/15325-Is-Outsourcing-Video-Game-AI-to-Deep-Networks-Feasible\">I talk about the lack of apparent progress in opponent AI in games, why that is, and what challenges we might face if we wanted to put REAL AI (such as we have so far) to work playing games<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For the record: The description I gave for how deep learning works is pretty sloppy. So don&#8217;t read that and think you know what deep learning is. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Deep_learning\">It&#8217;s actually way more complex than I made it sound<\/a>. You&#8217;ve got to understand something really well before you can translate it into plain language, and I am pretty far from an expert in this stuff. The article still works (because my points aren&#8217;t based on HOW deep learning works, only on the expense and effectiveness of it) it&#8217;s just that I want to make clear that my explanation is a gross over-simplification.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week: I talk about the lack of apparent progress in opponent AI in games, why that is, and what challenges we might face if we wanted to put REAL AI (such as we have so far) to work playing games. For the record: The description I gave for how deep learning works is pretty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-column"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}