I'm still really excited for Age of Empires 4 but the idea that it could possibly end up being used to make military AI is so fucking sad. I just want play a game I loved since I was a child....
This is all speculation so hopefully nothing like that actually happens.
Anyone else here excited for Age 4?
Pretty pathetic stretch.
AI is already being trained on games but in simulations of AI vs AI. Any application would need to be then trained on military data, not video games.
I agree it's very speculative. But I think they make a good point that AI needs to be trained against humans and strategy videos games would perfect for that as the massive amount of data would be 1000s if not 1000000s times more than thru pretty much any other method
You can generate more data from AI games than human games. The majority of human games are not useful data since the average human player is definitionally of average skill and most games will be played along the lines of a defined meta (humans are playing for their rank, not to explore the gamespace). AI games can generate considerably more data since the games are played much faster (they are not played out at human observable speeds), every game is played by an AI at the top skill level so far achieved by AI and the evolution of the AI will include a level of fuzziness that results in a greater range of strategies being explored many of which would be unintuitive for humans. It doesn't really matter though since the AI will not be transferable to other applications, even similar games will require restarting from scratch.