Artificial Intelligence (AI)Revolutionizes the Gaming Industry (2021)

IntroductionPlaying video games and getting engrossed or involved within the video game are two separate things all together. In the present day and age, video games have taken an entirely different form and reached another level.
The games have become more realistic, intelligent, and responsive.In this article, let us discuss Artificial Intelligence (AI) which is the innovative/revolutionary technology that has changed the gaming industry.

What is Artificial Intelligence?

So, let us start with the basics. AI is the capability or the ability of machines to make smart decisions/conclusions that are based the on learned concepts. Moreover, these machines go on learning just as humans do and based on what is learnt, the machines decide on what needs to be a done in a specific situation/scenario.

Interesting Facts on AIJanuary 2018, Google CEO Sundar Pichai quoted that AI will be more transformative to humans than electricity.
Based on a report by PWC, by 2030, the global GDP could rise by 14 percent as a result of AI enabled activities.
That is to $15.7 trillion.84% of enterprises believe that investing in AI will help with greater competitive advantages.
Between the years 2013 and 2017, venture capital funding towards AI increased 4.5 times, and venture capital in total increased by 2.08 times.
Nautilus, a self-learning super computer can forecast the future, and it became famous as it was able to locate the dreaded terrorist Osama Bin Laden.

How is AI Changing the Gaming Industry?

The biggest user of AI technology is the gaming industry. AI has been changing the gaming industry in some of the following ways:

Improved Interaction: For a video game to be successful, it is essential to consider the interactions between the game and the humans playing the game. AI is a revolutionary technology that supports this relationship between the game and the player.
Changing Developer Skills: To improve their technological capabilities and creativity, game developers always adopt cutting-edge technology. Reinforcement learning which is a part of Machine Learning (ML) has turned into a game-changer. With AI being adopted increasingly, the way games are being developed has changed. Genetic algorithms and pathfinding rule-based AI such as fuzzy logic are changing the concept of gaming AI completely. Today, AI techniques are required to create more interactive games along with the knowledge of traditional game development skills.
Better Decision-Making: Games are more interesting as they are able to respond to the player’s actions. The games respond with the help of AI, and these games make decisions based on the opponent’s actions.Prediction Ability: Support Vector Machines (SVM), Artificial Neural Networks (ANN), and decision tree learning are the essential components of AI, that are used to predict a players’ next move and thus make a decision. This is done by random guessing and outlining the previous patterns of the players.
Inhibiting Intelligence: Games are more than just a source of entertainment. They serve as a perfect testing environment for AI, used for analysing the players’ behaviour and then deploy the same while creating a smart game.
More Realistic Games: Another exciting feature of AI is that it lets the game developers build more realistic games for the users. It helps create scenarios where the players can interact with the characters in the game more efficiently and therefore relate to the game more effectively.
Mobile Gaming: Half of the gaming revenue is dependent on mobile games, and this is the cause of the rise of the mobile game industry. Interactive gaming is possible due to the high processing power of tablets and smartphones. However, the absence of a gaming console is a challenge. To add ‘smartness’ to mobile games, mobile game developers have started using ML frameworks and AI algorithms. Google’s TensorFlow Lite and Facebook’s Caffe2 are of huge help to AI developers.

Conclusion:

Today, the gaming industry is the most profitable, and this is due to games being more than just a source of entertainment. The growth of the gaming industry is proportional to the demand of the community and AI is playing a vital role in this industry.

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