Artificial Cowardice

Tolkien fans might be inter­est­ed in this news sto­ry about the com­plex sim­u­la­tion pro­gram that cre­at­ed the cli­mac­tic bat­tle scene in the Return of the King.

“For the first two years, the biggest prob­lem we had was sol­diers flee­ing the field of bat­tle,” Tay­lor said.

“We could not make their com­put­ers stu­pid enough to not run away.”

Now that’s arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence!