[MUD-Dev] Re: Spell components, chemistry, and the like...

[Nathan F Yospe]

On Thu, 12 Nov 1998, Emil Eifrem wrote:

:At 12:27 PM 11/12/98 , Franklyn Colebrooke, Jr. wrote:
:>side question- Does anyone know of a mud that is using neural networks
:>somewhere within it's game?

:AI in general and Neural Nets specifically have been extensively discussed
:on the list (and it's definitely a topic that I find very interesting and I
:wouldn't mind seeing it brought to life again). Check the archives,

:	http://www.kanga.nu/~petidomo/lists/mud-dev/1998Q2/msg00412.html

:may be a good starting point. As for a mud that is actually using it...
:hmm, Nathan's maybe? I don't know, I've never played on a mud that has an
:AI worth mentioning. :(

I use NNs for my "skill" system, or character based learning, and client
based, NLP linked fast-reordering nets (sort of a bastard neural net) in
the client command interpreter, or client based learning. The client has
a bit of a brain... it remembers what you've been up to, and association
of your last several dozen commands. The skill net works, but the client
is incomplete, and has been dormant for a long time. I'm a busy guy, and
mud development is getting the shaft in favor of quantum physics, comics
and editorial cartoons, and writing.
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