Live Magazine September 2014 Volume 9/2014 | Page 113

NTELLIGENCE
“IMAGINE WALKING INTO YOUR HOME
AND ASKING YOUR OS WHAT EMAIL
HAS COME IN, CHATTING ABOUT THE
NEWS AND PLAYING GAMES WITH
SUCH AN EFFECTIVE INTELLIGENCE THAT
THE SUSPENSION OF DISBELIEF IS TOTAL.”
ine walking into your home and asking your OS what email has come
in, chatting about the news and
playing games with such an effective intelligence that the suspension
of disbelief is total. Sure, accessories such as the Oculus Rift and, in
the future, body stimulating gaming
accessories will increase the reality of gaming, but it’s the artificial
intelligence, the way they computer
based opponents respond that will
take gaming to new and as yet, unexplored levels of immersion.
For now, we can play human opponents and enjoy the challenge of either competing or working together
in game environments, but in the future we may see us being immersed
in game environments with game
characters that seem all too real. Is
this a good thing or bad? Like social media, the possibilities for good
are there, but there will no doubt be
those who try to abuse the system
or use it for their own personal gain.
For now we can only wonder what
the future of gaming holds.

Written by Rob Jenkins

Poster for Her, copyright believed to belong
to the distributor of the film, Warner Bros,
publisher or graphic artist - sourced from
Wikipedia.

AI movie poster from Wikipidea.