Artificial Unintelligence

[Firus]

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If anything proves that AI should really be AU, I think I just found it.

I was playing the Pokémon TCG for Game Boy. In order to try and create a better deck than a mildly edited version of the starter "Squirtle & Friends" deck, I was "dueling" Imakuni?.

Yes, his name includes the question mark. He's an odd character, wearing an odd black suit. His deck is basically pretty crappy, and when you beat him, he gives you 4 packs, one of each kind, rather than the 2 of the same kind you normally get from people. Therefore, he's good to face if you want to collect cards.

Of course, he has a signature card, part of why he's so easy to beat. It's self-named ("Imakuni?"), and you can see a picture of it here. Of course, it's only been released in real life in Japan. I don't need to give an exact translation, basically what it says is...

A) The user of the card's Active Pokémon is now Confused (yes, you're seeing that right.)
B) Some useless crap showing how weird Imakuni? is.

Now that you have some background, here's what happened:

The battle started up, I put down my Pokémon (1 Active, 2 Benched), and he put down his (1 Active). He went first, and his card was revealed to be a Slowpoke -- exclusive to the game -- that's Psychic-type, has a Weakness to Psychic, and has 40HP.

You may already see what's happening here.

Imakuni? used the Imakuni? card right off the bat, confusing his Slowpoke. Don't ask me why he uses the card, or even has it in his deck, as I don't understand it either. Then he used Maintenance, shuffling two cards from his hand into his deck in order to draw one card. He got a Psychic Energy (I assume) and he equipped it to his Slowpoke, and tried to use an attack. But, as per the TCG rules, if a Pokémon is confused, before you can attack you flip a coin. If heads, it succeeds. If tails, the Pokémon does 20 damage to itself.

If the Pokémon has a weakness to its own type, it does double damage.

He got tails.

I won the battle before I had done ANYTHING but place down two Seels and a Lapras in battle preparation.

I guess it's appropriate that this was my 6th duel with him, giving me the Imakuni? card as a prize rather than the four packs. (On the third and sixth duels with him, you get the Imakuni? card.)

I know everyone already knew AI kind of sucked, but...this story was too funny to not share.

 

[Deleted member]

Haha, that's a nice one. I never knew there was a Pokemon TCG video game though.

 

[M.K]

"Imakuni?" is a joke character designed to feature a prominent Japanese singer ingame, as a form of advertisement.
He is designed to be very easy, if not immediate victory, only their for promotion.
I would not necessarily use this as a source of artificial unintelligence; moreso a programmed example of a joke character.

 

[Firus]

"Imakuni?" is a joke character designed to feature a prominent Japanese singer ingame, as a form of advertisement.
He is designed to be very easy, if not immediate victory, only their for promotion.
I would not necessarily use this as a source of artificial unintelligence; moreso a programmed example of a joke character.

I know Imakuni?'s background. I understand he's supposed to be a joke character and not all that difficult, I even pointed out in the beginning that his deck is generally not that good and that's why I was choosing to fight him to get cards.

But he still battles like any other AI (aside from purposefully confusing himself), so it's still uncommon for him to defeat himself in the very first turn. I've battled him a lot of times before, this is my second playthrough of the game, and I've never had this happen before.

Apparently, failure AI is serious business.

 

[Teran]

It's neither intelligence nor unintelligence. It's just well, random coding. Computers can perform tasks, but they can't actually think. They're just doing what they're programmed to do, not making decisions for themselves.

It's all just developer oversight haha, that **** was plain dumb.

 

[Firus]

It's neither intelligence nor unintelligence. It's just well, random coding. Computers can perform tasks, but they can't actually think. They're just doing what they're programmed to do, not making decisions for themselves.

It's all just developer oversight haha, that **** was plain dumb.

Yeah, it's just called "Artificial Intelligence" so it was a play on words. Smash CPUs are probably a much better example (like Melee Luigi, who will NEVER recover with his Up B, only his Side B), in all actuality, but...this made me laugh so hard.

Saved me some trouble of fighting him, which is ideal when I'm just trying to stock up on cards.

Turns out I didn't need the cards anyways, though, since I still don't have the cards to make a Rain Dance deck, and I beat all of the...Card...Master...Champion people...with a Zapdos-only deck, which actually works quite well.