Post #2249651

Langton's ant can procedurally generate things, if you set it up right. Would you call that AI? As for enemies in gaming, it got called that because game makers wanted to give the *appearance* of intelligence in enemy encounters. Aspirationally cribbing a word from sci-fi. It could just as accurately have been called "puppet behavior"... more accurately, really. The point is "AI" is not a useful word. A bunch of different disciplines across computing all use it to describe different things, each trying to cash in on the cultural associations of a term that comes from fiction.