Playing football using Human Level Artificial Intelligence

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This video shows a robot playing football. 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.

When playing football, the robot understands that the team works together in order to beat the opponent's team. Each member of the team knows what they have to do. The defensive line players have to block opponent players from reaching the quarterback, and give the quarterback enough time to throw the ball. The receivers have to run in formation so the quarterback knows where to throw the ball. The runningback has to get ready to run the ball if the quarterback hands the ball to him.

In order to coordinate the team's objectives, the quarterback will give coded instructions to members. Like he would say formation3 and each members know exactly what to do. The quarterback will have an easier time to do his job because he knows what the teammates are going to do in the future. On the other hand, the opponent players are trying to predict the quarterback's thinking and to counter the gameplay.

In the video, the robot plays as the quarterback and occasionally other players. Just because this is a videogame, doesn't mean real life is any different. In real life football, the same kind of thinking is used to play the game. The robot has to follow rules and objectives of the game, use strategies that work, adapt his game plans if opponent is winning, coordinate team members, identify threat areas, etc.

The robot has to also analyze the game and to keep track of scores. For example, if the robot was at the end zone and he had 2 more yards until touchdown, he won't throw the ball. Most likely, he will give the ball to the runningback. The reason is because there are risks involved in throwing the ball. Mainly the ball can be intercepted by opponent players. If you give it to the runningback, most like he can get at least 3 yards. Thus, the robot has to make important decisions in the game based on the current situation.