PhD advice

[Seamie]

The topic does interest me, and as far as i understand it it would be of use in finding employment. Dont know about teaching. And i dont think finding a job would be all the difficult for me with the Masters. Think i might leave it. 4 years of earning next to nothing would be tough.

It's tough being broke for that long, and it's tough to motivate yourself constantly and work alone all the time. if you're not totally certain, I'd say leaving it might be the best choice.

[bartleby]

I think its a team thing.

[Seamie]

I think its a team thing.

Even the team ones involve a lot of independent work, as far as i'm aware.

[Jammy]

There was scope for my masters thesis to branch off into a PhD, and one of my supervisors asked if I would like to go down that route, but i had no interest in taking it any further. The thought of 2/3 years extra work with f*ck all pay and only partial funding didn't appeal to me at all.

[dog]

you may as well do it while the recession is still going well.

[Claire_14]

he doesn't write well so id advise no

[bartleby]

I dont write well? what?

[Rev]

I don't think doctorates really help all that much for most jobs to be honest, you'd be better of getting four years worth of experience doing the job. They're more of use if you plan on following and academic/research career. I know in my job there are two lads here with doctorates and they found they weren't of much use to them when job hunting cos they had shag all experience.

[Claire_14]

PhD for what?

In many genres of computer games the increased complexity of interactions between the game player and the non-playing characters, and between these characters themselves, has led to the necessity for the computer controlled characters to be able to learn and adapt in ways that appear more natural and human-like than has been possible with standard game artificial intelligence (AI) techniques such as scripting, rule-based decision making and finite state machines. Therefore, much research has been undertaken in the development of autonomous, intelligent agents for computer games.

Although various AI techniques, such as Artificial Neural Networks, Genetic Algorithms, and Fuzzy Logic have been used to a limited extent, to give the appearance of more believable, human-like behaviours, they have not yet been used together in a structured way to create a truly autonomous, intelligent agent. This project will investigate the possibility of combining AI techniques to produce an autonomous intelligent agent that is able to learn, adapt and plan a course of actions based on interactions with other game characters, players and its environment.

this isn't well written

[bartleby]

Thats the official advertisement. Its written for people who know what it will mean. It makes perfect sense to me.