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Who needs AI?

by David Hostetler [modified 20071119:00:36 (Mon)] [posted 20030116:04:15 (Thu)]

I was just reading one of the essays on AI Depot and encountered the following statement about most of the applications of AI:

They all, however, involve one key factor: getting computers to perform tasks that humans don't especially want!

I immediately tried to fit gaming into that hypothesis, and it was pretty straight forward: in gaming, the AI gets to take on the role of graceful, but challenging, loser. Humans don't especially like that role. And for good reason. They're particularly bad at it.

So who needs AI? I do. I hate losing.