Playing Smart: On Games, Intelligence, and Artificial Intelligence (Playful Thinking)

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Enhance screen smoothness to optimise fast moving games such as RPG or adventure games. Input lag is reduced when Game Motion Plus is off. When Game Motion Plus is turned on, gameplay smoothness is improved by interpolating additional frames. When Game Motion Plus is turned on, VRR/Freesync will turn off. When VRR/Freesync is turned on from an external device, Game Motion Plus will turn off. At Act Dumb, we believe that when we act dumb, we enhance our creativity and play smart. The more we act like ourselves, the better we can be. Dumbness, on the other hand, or pretending to be dumb, tears away that invisible gap. It is more endearing, it makes one closer to the people they are talking to. It's almost liberating. It is a great catalyst for conversations and a necessity in breeding curiosity in people.

non-player-character's life in a friendly way. You will be surprised about so many things that it will be hard to play a game again and face it just like that. We’re all in this together. Act dumb, play smart. The best way to act dumb is to play smart. Or at least act like you’re playing hard. Playing dumb is easy. The hard part is knowing when you are supposed to be stupid and pretending that you are not being stupid.” For many years, chess was seen as one of the perfect tests of a machine's ability to mimic human 'intelligence' – a combination of rapid calculation and spontaneous action rather than just grinding through a series of instructions based on a set of rules. Yet even before IBM's Deep Blue had defeated world champion Garry Kasparov for the first time in February 1996, the artificial intelligence community was looking to games as the ideal format in which to develop and test its work.Don’t overthink it. Act dumb, play smart. That’s how you make decisions and create new opportunities for yourself every day. The best way to act dumb play smart. The worst way is to try and act normal when you’re anything but. learning tool, of itself and its players. It's stated in the book that when you're playing you're more yourself than you can expect. AI techniques take advantage of your (in-game) freedom, get data from you, and suit the game to make you even more into it. Live your life in a way that is authentic to yourself and the people around you. Act dumb play smart.

In the book Playing Smart, David Richards explains what this means in practice and sets out the principles that smart golfers use to get an edge. He examines every area of the game: on the tee, from the fairway, in trouble, around the green and on the putting surface.

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Amongst regular golfers of the same raw ability, some repeatedly out-perform others. These players consistently score better than the quality of their ball-striking, the accuracy of their short games and their putting skills. Microsoft describes Smart Delivery as a "technology" that allows you to "buy a game once and know that – whether you are playing it on Xbox One or Xbox Series X – you are getting the right version of that game on whatever Xbox you're playing on."

Tommy Thompson, AI Researcher, senior lecturer, game developer, and host of the YouTube series AI and GameHalo Infinite is possibly the most-anticipated Smart Delivery title. (Image credit: Xbox Game Studios) It's always a pleasure to see someone, who really enjoys his job, and also is able to speak about it with passion and in such a manner, that people from other fields can understand what he does (this especially concerns scientist). And this is what I liked most in this book. Togelius speaks clearly about his field of research (AI) and how novel AI methods can be applied in real world (namely, video games, in context of the book). Playing smart can help you start conversations, playing dumb helps you maintain the conversation. This is something that I have learnt and experienced. Dumb plays smart and smart plays dumb. Always remember to act dumb, play smart and think outside of the box.