Playing resident evil 4 using Human Level Artificial Intelligence

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This video shows a robot playing resident evil 4.  There are no sound in the video because I wanted to show the viewers what the robot is thinking while playing the game.  The flashing text and freeze frames are the internal thoughts of the robot and not instruction text for the viewers.  These internal thoughts describe the details of how the robot produce intelligence.

My robot doesn't use:  planning programs/heuristic searches (used by MIT and Stanford University), Bayesian's probability theories for decision making, Bayesian's equation for induction and deduction, semantic networks for natural language understanding, predicate calculus, common sense systems, first-order logic, rule-based systems, genetic programming, or MACHINE LEARNING.

This video shows a robot playing a complex 3-d game.  The whole point of the video was to show viewers that this robot can navigate in a 3-d environment based on goals.  The player should be aware of not just the current viewing state, but the environment from 360 degrees.  The robot has to know where his teammate is at all times, even when he doesn't see her.  The robot has to know what the street paths looks like so he can navigate in them.  He needs to also track the zombies and where they are located at all times.  This 360 degree awareness of the environment is crucial to making decisions in the game.  For example, in one of the scenes, he is barricaded inside a house and zombies are surrounding the house.  The robot needs to know all the exit points and shoot zombies so they can't enter the house.  Some exit points are behind the robot or to the side.  The robot is fully aware of what is behind him, and to the side (right or left).  This awareness can tell the robot where to focus his attention and prevent zombies from entering the house.

The awareness of the environment is just the first part.  The robot is actually doing multiple tasks at the same time.  At the beginning of the game, the robot has devised a strategy to stay live for 15 minutes, waiting for backup.  His strategy is to shoot, run, shoot, run, etc.  He knows that if he doesn't kill zombies, he will be surrounded.  Thus, he as no choice, but to kill zombies.  But he has to do it in a way that will lead him to survival for himself and his teammate.  The shoot and run method works because the player does survive at the end of the video.

If the robot had decided to run only and hide, the zombies will come in streams and eventually find him.  If he stands his ground and shoot zombies at one area, he will be overwhelmed and killed.  Thus, the strategy to run and shoot, run and shoot, is a method that leads to survival.  This was a strategy the robot discovered through practice.  Through trial and error, he found the method that worked in the game.