Bringing gaming to life with AI and deep learning

For more on using deep learning to develop digital experiences, check out Danny Lange's session "Bringing gaming, VR, and AR to life with deep learning" at the Artificial Intelligence Conference, September 17-20, 2017, in San Francisco. 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.