Modern-day AI is a culmination of weird ideas of stalwarts spread over centuries. The year 2021 especially is special in this regard as it also happens to be the 375th birth anniversary of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, the 90th anniversary of Kurt Goedel's 1931 groundbreaking paper, and the 80th anniversary of Konrad Zuse's seminal work. These works laid the foundations for modern-day AI and its algorithms. The significance of this year was first brought to light by Prof. Juergen Schmidhuber, who himself has been responsible for many groundbreaking works in the field of AI. Also known as the world's first computer scientist, Leibniz's work had a great impact on the field of computing.

Artificial Intelligence already influences many parts of modern life. Simple formulas and complex AI systems work away without us even knowing. That is already the case in video gaming and has been for decades. Game developers have used artificial intelligence in numerous ways since the advent of this technology. Pathfinding is used to find a way from Point A and Point B like the ghosts in Pac-Man. Finite State Machines transform those same ghosts from chasers to fleers in-game.