Game AI Competitions: Motivation for the Imitation Game-Playing Competition

@article{Swiechowski2020GameAC,
  title={Game AI Competitions: Motivation for the Imitation Game-Playing Competition},
  author={Maciej Swiechowski},
  journal={2020 15th Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS)},
  year={2020},
  pages={155-160}
}
  • M. Swiechowski
  • Published 1 September 2020
  • Computer Science
  • 2020 15th Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS)
Games have played crucial role in advancing research in Artificial Intelligence and tracking its progress. In this article, a new proposal for game AI competition is presented. The goal is to create computer players which can learn and mimic the behavior of particular human players given access to their game records. We motivate usefulness of such an approach in various aspects, e.g., new ways of understanding what constitutes the human-like AI or how well it fits into the existing game… 
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