Virtual gamer bot beats Turing's 'human' test - Futurity

You are free to share this article under the Attribution 4.0 International license. U. TEXAS – AUSTIN (US) -- An artificially intelligent virtual gamer has won the BotPrize by convincing a panel of judges that it was more human-like than half of its human opponents. The competition was sponsored by 2K Games and was set inside the virtual world of "Unreal Tournament 2004," a first-person shooter video game. "The idea is to evaluate how we can make game bots, which are non-player characters (NPCs) controlled by AI algorithms, appear as human as possible," says Risto Miikkulainen, professor of computer science at the University of Texas at Austin. Miikkulainen created the bot, called the UT 2 game bot, with doctoral students Jacob Schrum and Igor Karpov.