Generate emergent behavior in AI characters using Unreal Engine and the free MindMaker machine learning plugin — In the following article I discuss how to generate emergent behavior in AI characters using Unreal Engine, Reinforcement Learning, and the free machine learning plugin MindMaker. …

Hiking not long ago in the woods of North Carolina, I stopped to rest on a large moss-covered rock. Lying down and relaxing in the sun-splashed Appalachian wilderness, the bucolic nature sounds filtered in from the surrounding trees. After some time this sense of peace commenced to ebb, replaced by…

MindMaker Blueprint Functions Overview There are two primary components to MindMaker — an executable learning engine and a set of blueprint nodes which interface with the learning engine and pass information back and forth to UE via the Plugin. This article covers the usage of the MindMaker blueprint assets. …

Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, but it’s creation will soon be in the hands of an algorithm — Accompanying Video: https://youtu.be/dmxrN7uUUhs This article introduces the burgeoning field of automated content creation with a player generated reinforcement learning signal. In the Unreal Engine example presented, a user demonstrates their preferences concerning the components of a game while interacting with it, and the software in turn automatically adjusts or creates…

Understanding complex emergent behavior using biologically derived optimization methods — Modern civilizations approach to animal behavior and the natural world comes across as a schizophrenic assortment of opposing sentiments — two parts resource exploitation mixed with a big dose of romantic, enlightenment era notions regarding the nobility of the natural world and how best to preserve it. In this it…

Build a Bitcoin Bot In Unreal Engine 4 using Deep Reinforcement Learning and Visual Scripting [Download the Entire Project on Github] Let’s begin with an obvious question — why would one want to use a game engine for designing an automated trading bot? The answer is that many activities, including…

Design a custom RL environment using modern game development software and Deep Reinforcement Learning(A2C, PPO, TD3, ACER, DQN) — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNmNKnDQvgo While the scope of reinforcement learning (RL) is likely to soon extend far beyond computer simulation, today the main location for training RL agents is within the digital environment. In the world of artificial intelligence, simulators are often the environments in which an algorithm functions.

Discover how reinforcement learning is being used to upend traditional methods for creating video game AI — Reinforcement learning stands to become the new gold standard in creating intelligent video game AI. The chief advantage of reinforcement learning(RL) over traditional game AI methods is that, rather than hand-crafting the AI’s logic using complicated behavior trees, with RL one simply rewards the behavior they wish the AI to…

The Looming Crises at the Nexus of For-Profit Corporations and Artificial Intelligence — At the outset, prudence would suggest an introduction to the cast of characters that will make up this short narrative, and in so doing, an attempt to describe the conundrum in which they find themselves. …