Research Collection – Shall we play a game?
From a research point of view, games offer an amazing environment in which to develop new machine learning algorithms and techniques. And we hope, in due course, that those new algorithms will feed back not just into gaming, but into many other domains. Beyond the very technical machine learning techniques themselves, gaming is an environment in which we can explore the relationship between AI and people, and see how they can work in partnership. It’s a very rich environment in which to drive new research ideas.
Dr. Chris Bishop, Technical Fellow and Lab Director, Microsoft Research Cambridge
The history of computer gaming goes back nearly as far as the history of computer science itself. As early as the 1950s, researchers were using