Welcome to the Neural Networks Research Group web site.
The group is directed by Prof. Risto Miikkulainen and is located at the Department of Computer Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin.
The UT^2 Bot wins BotPrize
9/15/2012
For the first time in the five-year history of the BotPrize Competition (i.e. the "Turing test for game bots" in the Unreal 2004 video game), the best bots were judged as human more than 50% of the time, resulting in the awarding of the actual BotPrize sponsored by 2K Games. Two bots achieved this feat; one of them was the UT^2 bot created by Igor Karpov, Jacob Schrum, and Risto Miikkulainen, based on neuroevolution of combat behavior and navigation based on human traces. For more details, see our BotPrize project page and the official BotPrize Competition page, and listen to/watch interviews on Digital Nibbles and aigamedev.org.