It’s okay, I’m not confused by the conversation, but thank you for clarifying if it helps others.
Relic had this old Twitch video (“Age of Empires IV: Gamescom Recap”) I thought the current thread might appreciate seeing. See 25m 00s for start of short discussion (World’s Edge and Relic) about AI deep learning… maybe 5 or 6 mins.
- I wouldn’t, personally, want a so-called “Merciless” AI or an AI that “gets better every time someone beats it”, which is also talked about. I’d mainly just want different personalities and playstyles.
I envision something more like @Horapallas said, where big fast computers crunch all the data on Microsoft’s end and then a final models are created to run on local PCs.
There were some past discussions on the topic of deep learning here, too:
And, of course, the original cinematic was made HD with AI: