1. Artificial Intelligence In Modern Military Games GameTech 2012
February 23, 2019
Creative Technologies Inc.

2. Who We Are Creative Technologies Inc. (CTI)
Principals came from the US Army’s Institute for Creative Technologies (
Woman-owned, small business
Based in Los Angeles, CA (Hollywood)
Company founded in 2000 (entertainment production); full-time defense industry – 2006
Novel, immersive, virtual simulation training solutions

3. What We Do Simulation development and support:
Application development and system integration; team has developed 13 solutions (institutional, desktop and mobile) since 2003
System staffing and support
Focus on US Army Customer, Intelligence Community
Creative visualization:
Concept and scenario development, scripting and storyboarding
Film/video production & post production
Live demonstration

4. FCS Mobile Demonstration Trailer

7. JFETS Close Air Support Module7

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10. CFFT-Augmented Virtuality

11. Real-World Student Workspace

12. Virtual Student Workspace

13. IARPA – Sirius/Missing

14. DoD Desktop Status Quo Graphics realism
Organic AI: scripting, path-planning, goal-oriented AI, learning behavior, behavior trees – crisp logic
Deterministic (with limited stochastic variability)
Suitable for force-on-force, doctrinally consistent conflict
Constructive sim drivers:
Large number of entities
Hybrid solution:
Command decisions: natural intelligence
SAF
Blackboard

15. Commercial Directions
Physically realistic characters
Avatars react to the world physically (hand on a rail, feet on a sloping surface)
Complex audio processing
Discussion regarding NPC cognition and states
Fuzzy reasoning:
Slow on single-thread machines
Massively parallel could make it feasible
Need to move off single-thread “mindset”

16. Improved Desktop AI: Potential Enablers
Next-gen console General Purpose Graphics Processing Units
Dozens of GP GPUs flat memory model
Bandwidth:
Cloud-based AI computing
Wired
LTE

17. Support for Fuzzy Reasoning Implementation
More achievable with massively parallel processing than practical conversational agents
Fuzzy sets/hedges/quantifiers/rules/policies can be developed by non-engineering domain experts
Technology tolerates conflicting expert opinions
Emergent NPC behavior that is both non-deterministic and logical

18. Non-deterministic And Sensible
Possible substitute for natural intelligence in C2
Shared resource/lower cost
AI calculations: time sensitive…not time critical

19. Recent Example: Adaptive OPFOR
Left 4 Dead:
“Applying Behavioral Mathematics to LEFT 4 DEAD” – Dave Mark, 2009, aigamedev.com
AI Director – bots dynamically respond to player gameplay
Target selection
Fuzzy triggers
Pattern recognition

20. In Development
CTI project assesses player performance in a complex search:

21. Artificial Intelligence In Modern Military Games GameTech 2012
February 23, 2019
Creative Technologies Inc.