Bringing gaming to life with AI and deep learning

Machine learning opens the door for the use of training rather than programming in game development. Game development is a complex and labor-intensive effort. Game environments, storylines, and character behaviors are carefully crafted, requiring graphics artists, storytellers, and software engineers to work in unison. Often, games end up with a delicate mix of hard-wired behavior in the form of traditional code and a somewhat more responsive behavior in the form of large collections of rules. Over the last few years, data intensive machine learning (ML) solutions have obliterated rule-based systems in the enterprise--think Amazon, Netflix, and Uber. At Unity, we have explored the use of some of these technologies, including deep learning in content creation and deep reinforcement learning in game development.