A new kind of AI for games

All the AI you've been reading about uses language to work, but none of it understands language. It just uses statistics to string together common word combinations it finds in massive volumes of text on the internet.

The AI in "Emergence" actually does have code to "think" about what it's going to say. Some of it's responses are admittedly weird, but they can be funny, and even "insightful", but are not always what you'd expect. The AI's had over 9000 conversations. 

 I've combined AI and interactive fiction to make a story based on your conversation. It could be a new way to play games.