You probably don’t think that the average rabbit is particularly intelligent. They generally like eating grass, hopping around and digging holes (wonder if it's time to change my avatar :ashamed: ). How complicated could such a small animal be?
Well, in early 2008, IBM embarked on a project to digitally simulate the cerebral cortex of such a small mammal at the Thomas J Watson Research Center. The test used 8,192 processors and 2.8TB of memory on the Blue Gene-L supercomputer to simulate the 22 million neurons and 11 billion synapses found in the16cm2 cortical surface of a rabbit’s brain.
Simulating even primitive intelligence is extremely demanding, so how does a basic PC go about simulating human intelligence in multiple game characters at once?
bit-tech.net | Feature - How AI in Games Works