English version of my slides "Pourquoi appliquer sa recherche en IA dans les jeux"

1. Why applying your research in AI on games
Florian Richoux
6th of December, 2016
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2. It's fun!
It would be disingenuous of us to disguise the fact that the principal
motive which prompted the work was the sheer fun of the thing.
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3. The game industry
A real industry, with its problems, needs and expectations.
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4. Science popularization
Games speak to anyone: it is easy to explain ideas and concepts through
them.
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5. More convenient than other application elds
For instance more convenient than robotics: dematerialized, need few
hardware, time-ow control, costs, . . .
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6. Experts identication
International competitions for many games: winners are well placed to
bring their expertise.
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7. Huge accessible mass of data
Great analyzable, free, often unrestricted access without condentiality
problems collection of matches and data.
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8. Excellent environment for human-machine interaction
Cooperative or competitive interactions at a large scale.
Implies communication and social interaction abilities.
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9. Game nature
Game : environment where one must take a series of decisions, with a
clear metric of success (score).
Ideal learning playground.
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10. World simplication
Like a small world: easier rules, more restricted space, more limited
interactions, but rich and complex enough to propose scientically
pertinent problems.
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11. Other points?
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