Preface

In this second edition of the book John joins Ian as a co-author. We have both had long careers in the world of game AI, but two memories that stand out from Ian’s career provide the philosophical underpinnings for the book.

The first memory takes place in a dingy computer lab on the top floor of the computer science building at Birmingham University in the UK. Ian was halfway through the first year of his Artificial Intelligence degree, and he had only been in the department for a couple of weeks after transferring from a Mathematics major. Catching up on a semester of work was, unexpectedly, great fun, and a great bunch of fellow students was eager to help him learn about Expert Systems, Natural Language Processing, Philosophy of Mind, ...

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