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17/09/2019

I think the best AI is strongly based on biology.
This is a very good fundamental (+free +online) book from professor Randall C. O'Reilly:
https://grey.colorado.edu/CompCogNeuro/index.php/CCNBook/Book
I turned toward this topic, my next AI will implement most of these ideas.

Archived PDF versions (please use these if the above links are slow -- latest is always most recent "stable" version of the book):

30/04/2018

Wing: Released spirits
original game released in 2004
- click on the zip
- on next page press download
- extract and run in any forlder

24/09/2017

Comprehensive analysis of the computations in brain. The best AI must copy these neural solutions. Almost finished reading, rather inspirative.
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/computing-the-mind-9780195320671?cc=hu&lang=en&

In a culmination of humanity's millennia-long quest for self knowledge, the sciences of the mind are now in a position to offer concrete, empirically validated answers to the most fundamental questions about human nature.

24/09/2017

Computational neuroscience in focus:
Just studying a set of good articles from a veteran professor of AI:

In 1953 Francis Crick and James Watson discovered the 3-dimensional double-helix structure of our DNA and won the Nobel Prize for it in 1962. It was

19/03/2017

Why am I researching consciousness during game development?
Whenever I implemented bot AI, I allways felt it it too mechanistic.
No freedom of choice, no feeleing of freedom. No feeling at all.
During the development I arrived at decesion points: which solution option for the problem to use.
Then I realized, I shall allways use the one most resembles to how brain does it.
Then I started studying Brain structure and mechanisms.
I will refine and expand this post.
http://www.frontiersin.org/files/Articles/91894/fpsyg-05-00714-HTML/image_m/fpsyg-05-00714-g004.jpg

19/03/2017

Wing 2 development continued with Navigation Mesh used in buildings, navigaton grid used in land surface. Managed to seamless connect the 2 systems for both players and bots.

19/03/2017

Continuing the study of consciousness and applying the neural correlates to the agent control. This book is excellent on sub cortical bases of feelings and self:
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/feb/12/self-comes-mind-damasio-review

Steven Rose examines a neurologist's attempt to explain why we have conscious selves

07/08/2016

Wing: Released Spirits was published 10 years ago. I'm thinking about 10 years anniversary edition with Ogre engine...
A tester of my team at Ericsson has found Wing on the net and played it. Unfortunately he has found some collision bugs, that could also be fixed in the new release.

02/05/2016

Excellent book, I try to implement as much ideas as can be within game environment.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consciousness_and_the_Brain

Consciousness and the Brain: Deciphering How the Brain Codes Our Thoughts (2014) is a book by Stanislas Dehaene. It summarizes research on the neuroscience of consciousness, particularly from recent decades.

02/11/2015

The old AI script encoded reflexes, in 'first rule hit' order, much like a program. However, during tests a lot of different situation occurred, for which the script became too complex. It is not programming, but teaching should be done. In real life, the agents learn. The human like learning methods did not work well on the old rules. Therefore, I wanted a shift toward biology, the AI model was changed to represent neural network. It was a long work to study frontal cortex and find a well readable neural network model.

27/02/2014

Soldier control network study prepared for learning.

10/01/2014

Wing: Released Spirits trailer video