EA Designs an AI That Can Learn to Play Battlefield 1

This EA concoction AI is made to play the game.

Artificial intelligence technology or commonly called Artificial Intelligence (AI), is indeed very useful in helping human life. Starting from automatic doors, bots for playing games, to tutorial bots run by AI. Then, what if the AI is taught to be able to learn on its own and not programmed to do something in a video game? This is what EA does.

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EA’s Search for Extraordinary Experiences Division, or SEED, has just created a self-learning AI agent, which can learn to play multiplayer on its own. Battlefield 1. Through his blog post, Magnus Nordin as SEED staff explained that they were inspired by the work that Google did on old Atari games. They’re experimenting how far they can go to make an AI capable of learning to play a very complex game in its class Battlefield 1.

Although not as perfect as bots that are programmed for it, their AI is quite successful. They will automatically take ammo or health packs, if their bullets or health are running low. But like gamers who have just learned FPS games, for now the AI is still not able to recognize the map structure well.

It’s only a matter of time until the self-learning AI will be perfect for learning the game, and it can’t be recognized whether it is human or AI from the way it plays. Although Nordin does not consider them as a better substitute for bots and considers them as experimental material only. But maybe one day we can watch video game tournaments that AI athletes participate in. Who knows?