AI Game Programming Wisdom 3 grants you an insider's look at cutting-edge AI techniques used by industry professionals in such games as Fable, Halo 2, and the Battlefield series. Successful commercial games like these require years of research and development in order to deliver exciting, new gamepl[...]
A fully revised update to the first edition, AI Game Engine Programming, Second Edition provides game developers with the tools and information they need to create modern game AI engines. Covering the four principle elements of game artificial intelligence, the book takes you from theory to actual g[...]
Human behavior is never an exact science, making the design and programming of artificial intelligence that seeks to replicate human behavior difficult. Usually, the answers cannot be found in sterile algorithms that are often the focus of artificial intelligence programming. However, by analyzing w[...]
Artificial intelligence (AI) is now advancing at such a rapid clip that it has the potential to transform our world in ways both exciting and disturbing. Computers have already been designed that are capable of driving cars, playing soccer, and finding and organising information on the Web in ways t[...]
When Ai starts to have feelings for Yota- feelings that are forbidden to video girls-Ai's creator steps in to either fix her or erase her. If she gives Yota the cold shoulder, they'll both be disappointed. But if she confesses her growing love for him, she'll disappear forever.[...]
Ai's journey of self-discovery continues as her mysterious wings grow larger and the gaps in her memory grow smaller. As the female Furies of Ai-Land close in on her, Ai finds that the answer to her world's problems is closer than she ever could have imagined. Unfortunately, while trying to save the[...]
Drawing Cute Animals in Colored Pencil offers simple step-by-step drawing instructions that help you to learn how to draw your favorite animals. Adorable animals like rabbits, squirrels, deer, and pigs come alive with vibrant color and beautiful detail. Using colored pencils learn tips and technique[...]
Today's game players expect increasingly realistic interaction within games. Introduction to Game AI teaches readers who are new to game AI the skills they need through hands-on projects based on small, understandable games. While there are many books that take a more advanced approach to this top[...]
Can machine learning deliver AI? Theoretical results, inspiration from the brain and cognition, as well as machine learning experiments suggest that in order to learn the kind of complicated functions that can represent high-level abstractions (e.g. in vision, language, and other AI-level tasks), o[...]
Unscaled identifies the forces that are reshaping the global economy and turning one of the fundamental laws of business and society--the economies of scale--on its head.
An innovative trend combining technology with economics is unraveling behemoth industries--including corporations, banks, farm[...]
Ai Weiwei is a Chinese artist and activist known for sculpture, installation, architecture, film, and social criticism. For his controversial work, Ai was detained in April 2011, released on bail after 81 days, and he remains under intense police surveillance, prohibited from leaving Beijing. Coinci[...]
T'ai Chi -- a martial art used for health, meditation, and self-defense -- and QiGong -- a large variety of physical and mental training methods based on Chinese philosophy -- are widely recognized to heal physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. T'ai Chi has demonstrated its health benef[...]
Machine learning and data analytics are powering a wave of groundbreaking technologies. Is your company ready?If you read nothing else on how intelligent machines are revolutionizing business, read these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the [...]
Learn how to build recommender systems from one of Amazon's pioneers in the field. Frank Kane spent over nine years at Amazon, where he managed and led the development of many of Amazon's personalized product recommendation technologies.You've seen automated recommendations everywhere - on Netflix's[...]