ABSTRACT
Game AI is seldom about any deep intelligence but rather about the illusion of intelligence. This chapter explains why it is scientifically possible to trick players into believing there is real intelligence. It looks some concrete ways to perpetuate the illusion of intelligence in the eyes of the player. There are three things that work to make players very susceptible to the illusion. First, players want to believe that there are glimmers of real human-level intelligence in their games. Second, humans have this desire to anthropomorphize nonhuman entities, seeing human traits and emotions where there are none. Third, expectations can easily become reality in the mind of the player. The chapter emphasizes that managing player expectations can have a significant effect on promoting the illusion of intelligence. The placebo effect is a real phenomenon in humans that likely works on the same mechanism of expectations. Personality is the culmination of all the properties of an intelligent character.
