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A examination of the rapidly evolving intersection of AI and NFT technologies. Will AI’s traditional use cases in game development translate to the new world of blockchain gaming?
The history of artificial intelligence (AI) is inextricably intertwined with that of game development. From primitive chess and checkers AI programs built on the earliest commercial computers to the more recent forays of Google’s AlphaStar and AlphaGo initiatives, artificial intelligence has grown in complexity alongside game development. AI has also been a key tool in refining and operating games, helping to fill matchmaking lobbies and find bugs.
As we enter what may be an entirely new era of gaming with the emergence of blockchain-based games, AI will likely continue to play a key role in game development. A new crop of companies is springing up to combine AIs with non-fungible tokens (NFTs) on the blockchain, enabling entirely new experiences heretofore unseen in the industry.
One such example is …
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