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When most people think of AI in games they think of an AI playing the game, or controlling the non-player characters you meet in the game. This might be because of the association between AI and the idea of autonomous action, or the association between game characters and robots. While playing games is far from the only interesting application for AI in games, it is a very important one and the one with the longest history.

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Yannakakis, G.N., Togelius, J. (2018). Playing Games. In: Artificial Intelligence and Games. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63519-4_3

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