AI Researchers, Video Games Are Your Friends!
This is an incremental perspective piece advocating for cross-disciplinary collaboration between AI researchers and game developers.
The paper argues that video games serve as ideal testbeds for AI research, particularly for advancing artificial general intelligence, and that AI can enable new types of video games, based on a keynote presentation.
If you are an artificial intelligence researcher, you should look to video games as ideal testbeds for the work you do. If you are a video game developer, you should look to AI for the technology that makes completely new types of games possible. This chapter lays out the case for both of these propositions. It asks the question "what can video games do for AI", and discusses how in particular general video game playing is the ideal testbed for artificial general intelligence research. It then asks the question "what can AI do for video games", and lays out a vision for what video games might look like if we had significantly more advanced AI at our disposal. The chapter is based on my keynote at IJCCI 2015, and is written in an attempt to be accessible to a broad audience.