Artificial intelligence

[gdBlaze]

My manager just emailed asking if I have any conflicts adding another week to a project so I responded by saying that I have three weeks vacation starting next week. He he.

Then I come here... Good thing I looked at the comments so I can feel foolish too

[PhotoJoe]

I for one welcome my April 1st pranking AI overlords!

[Greenwood42]

well you lost me right away. after all it did not beat the worlds best go player, just a pro, not even a great one.

[nat_e_20]

Dang you got me all excited and then I saw the date...

[XerethShura]

HAHA! I was JUST complaining about this to my wife, also talking about how brilliant it was. Then I happened to remember what day it was. You got me, good one.

[iloveai]

goose bump ----> turn down

[cdcounselor]

Ha Ha - April fools!!!!!

but what a great story!! Clever

[sourisdudesert]

Thanks to all of you for your laughs and comments on this BGA April Fools' Day joke.

Like you, we like board games because this is a way to exchange with (real) people, a way to meet new people, and a way to share the pleasure of game. A shared pleasure : this is we consider playing board games is more enjoyable than playing a video game alone.

So yes, we are thinking about introducing some AI on BGA, but not to push you to play alone. AI would be good to replace a player that left a game in the middle, to help beginners to learn a game, or to play the "3rd or 4th player" for a game that is better in such a configuration. By the way we invite all developers that would be interested to develop an AI on BGA to contact us (contact (at) boardgamearena.com).

Long live board games! And long live board games (human) players!