Yes, my AI is playing steem monsters. Whereas the term "my AI" is a bit of a misnomer. I do have two separate programs (aicu the curator (also the name origin of the account) and aicu the SM bot) using various techniques from machine learning, but that's just nitpicking.

Anyway, the SM bot uses the same base algorithm like the Go bot you're referencing. Just without neural networks (working on that, but work is keeping me busy).

The issue with the advances in AI is, that more and more tasks will be assisted or dominated by it. Replacing humans at worst. But I think the possibility of ai assisting and improving workflows and people in general is the more optimistic outlook.

In the game I can't mark the bot as a bot. I'm communicating it openly, but that doesn't change the fact that it's playing and taking rewards from ranked matches etc. For now it's still pretty beatable, but I intend to change that in the future and improve it further. The issue with that is, that others can build such a bot as well. Less sophisticated methods are actually more efficient.

And its pretty much impossible to tell whether a player is a bot or not, if the bot uses the same methods to interact with the game like other players. Unless you know that it's a bot.

That issue just gets aggravated with further improvements in AI and CS in general. And it's not just games which are affected. The latest advances in text generation actually allow people to spread propaganda faster than ever before. Deep fakes on the other hand can deceive people. There have already been cases where someone faked the voice of a CEO and managed to convince a lower manager at the company to send money to a bank account. I haven't fact checked that article, but knowing how people manage things at the companies I worked for, it doesn't sound that unbelievable.

So the economic gain and damage of AI techniques will be tremendous.

And I haven't written an article about it and neither am I an expert in this field. I only have experience in natural language processing, so I can at most comment on text generation, stilometry, voice synthesis, altering etc. But I'd need to read up on it as well. Never looked too much into deceiving people using AI, but the latest developments are giving plenty points of attack to choose from. I won't write an article about stuff like that soon, but in the long run I might do a writeup on fake articles and how they might affect steemit. If I manage to get an article trending using techniques like that or build a following you'll definetly hear from it. Not sure when I get around to experimenting with it though.

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