An idea for a game

[Juby]

Yeah, it's unfortunate but you have to realize one thing: computers cannot think. They can only do what they are told to do and so NPCs in video games cannot truly deduce. If it appears an NPC has deduced something from the way you act or from events that occurred before it's only because someone "told the NPC" (not as simple as that): when x happens, this piece of information will be known to you. Realistic AI is the result of many days of thinking of absolutely everything that can happen and creating a complex tree of suitable "reactions". It's very time consuming and difficult which is why not many games have good AI.

[url]http://www.realmtech.net/documents/CompuThink.pdf[/url]

Computers (mainstream) at the moment do not think, but will no-doubly possess that capability in the near-future. When that happens, which should be within the century knowing we can speed up the evolutionary process instead of waiting millions of years, I don't see why it cannot be applied into AI in a video game. My inner nerd jumps at such a thought