(photo by Guwashi)

Recently (march 22nd) a very awesome conference on Artificial Intelligence has been held in Japan: the 4th Cognitive Science and Entertainment Symposium at University of Electro-Communication in Tokyo.

Not only was it awesome because it featured a showmatch of Japanese Warsow-stars bluespear and fumio, but even more because Mr. Akira Mizukami presented his work on 'Human like AI player for Warsow' - as my understanding of Japanese is very limited, I'll quote Warsow Dev Guwashi on the translation:

"using machine learning method based on neural network to improve BOT's behavior. I heard the author made a mod to record all human players actions (Test players are bluespear and fumio :)), and he input those data to neural network as learning data to let BOT act like human."

Doesn't that sound nice? :). Now we've been told the source of this project will probably turn up online sooner or later, so stay tuned for more!

Now, for some additional reading and info:
- Forum thread (check out first post for some links)
- Guwashi's photos
- Yu Matsui's blog post on the symposium (with videos!)