What AI Game Developers Do and How to Become One

My name is Aleksandr Pindyk, and I am the Lead Engineer of the AI team at Wargaming studio in Kyiv. For more than five years, our team has been developing AI (artificial intelligence) for one of the most popular online games - World of Tanks. I want to talk more about the profession of an AI developer in game development, the specifics of his work, and how to become one. First, let's define what game AI is. If we move away from the dry definitions from Wikipedia, the game AI is a system that imitates the behavior of a character or player. Depending on the genre and purpose of the game, different technologies and approaches are used in the development of AI. Let's look at the main types of games and the AI goals. Let's take a look at games we all know. A good example here would be chess and Go. This type of game can use artificial intelligence based on neural networks. Since the primary goal of AI is to defeat the player at all costs, it does not need to imitate human behavior.