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  • macniel@feddit.orgtoShowerthoughts@lemmy.worldAI is like a hammer
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    AI in video games is a distinct subfield and differs from academic AI. It serves to improve the game-player experience rather than machine learning or decision making. During the golden age of arcade video games the idea of AI opponents was largely popularized in the form of graduated difficulty levels, distinct movement patterns, and in-game events dependent on the player’s input.

    In general, game AI does not, as might be thought and sometimes is depicted to be the case, mean a realization of an artificial person corresponding to an NPC in the manner of the Turing test or an artificial general intelligence.

    Look further down to see what currently understood AI, aka generative AI, is used for in video games












  • You are missing that Atari castrated the Steam version since Steam is only windows (at that time) they thought they wouldn’t need to ship the linux binaries with the downloadable version of UT2k4.

    So you get the following options:

    • Use the UT2k4 linux setup from the original dvd
    • run UT2k4 via wine/proton
    • use the Flatpak launcher, copy the gog/steam data into the appropriate folder (the flatpak runner will tell you where)

    via the latter I got this: