Believable Bots Can Computers Play Like People?
We share our modern world with bots – chatbots to converse with, roombots to clean our houses, spambots to fill our e-mail inboxes, and medibots to assist our surgeons. This book is about computer game bots, virtual companions who accompany us in virtual
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Believable Bots Can Computers Play Like People?
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Editor Philip Hingston School of Computer and Security Science Edith Cowan University Mount Lawley, WA Australia
ISBN 978-3-642-32322-5 DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-32323-2
ISBN 978-3-642-32323-2
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Preface
The idea that we humans would one day share the Earth with a rival intelligence is as old as science fiction. That day is speeding towards us. Our rivals (or will they be our companions?) will not come from another galaxy, but out of our own strivings and imaginings. The bots are coming; chatbots, robots, gamebots. Some of the early arrivers already build our cars, and soon may drive them for us. They reside in our mobile phones and try to answer our questions, and might one day arrange our diaries and help refill our fridges. We play games with them for fun. Ray Kurzweil [1] claims that we are merging with them and that we will together become a new, enhanced species. Will we welcome them, when they come? Will bots have human friends? Will we grant t
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