Building character AI through machine learning

If you play video games, imagine how much you sometimes empathize with the character you're controlling. You may even forget the separation between the two of you, experiencing the world as that character. Consider whether your control in these moments is different, both at a high level and in tiny movements, than what the character would do if you had simply written down a set of rules for it to act by. In that difference lies the promise of this method for developing character AI. In psychology research methodology, there's a broad consensus that if you want to know what someone would do in a situation, you don't ask them what they would do.