92jeeto is a burgeoning genre that showcases the promise and perils of artificial intelligence in video game design and development. Across multiple platforms, developers are using generative AI to create characters and environments, rewriting storylines and improving gameplay through reinforcement learning, and enabling player-driven narratives with a variety of nondeterministic approaches.

Until recently, the majority of game-related AI technology has been based on deterministic methods like behavior trees or pathfinding algorithms. Deterministic AI performance is specified and predictable – for example, a game developer might code an NPC to chase a target by advancing along the x and y coordinate axes until it encounters the targeted location.

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However, deterministic approaches have their limits. In a competitive game, when the AI reaches an impasse in the pursuit of a goal (like a character running out of ammunition in a shooter) they will often take shortcuts that may result in unpredictability or unfairness. In contrast, heuristics and nondeterministic AI are more flexible. Heuristics are techniques that allow the AI to make decisions in a more natural way by considering a series of alternatives. Nondeterministic AI uses a set of rules, or “blueprints,” to predict what will happen next in the simulated physical space.

Generative AI is a new frontier for game developers, and it can provide a unique creative outlet for users. For instance, one game allows players to interact with a virtual counselor that uses a form of generative AI to respond to a user’s actions in a Rogerian therapy style. The game is something of a successor to the original ELIZA, which used a similar natural language processing approach by rephrasing a user’s statements.…