Behavior Trees in Robotics and AI, An Introduction

This isn’t about how you might feel about the topic one way or another. This is a book for students, professionals, and those with a keen interest in the field and why and how behavior trees work. A breakthrough to organizing, a how to organize, and how to reuse programming multiple times with a variety robotic requirements. AI long considered by many the holy grail that changes everything now includes Behavior Trees that will change everything faster. From being a highly fluent agent of change now and new tools in the future, it explains programming how Behavior Trees are much more versatile than ever to create and expand robotics thought in every possible in every possible scenario imagined.

Fear is not a word tossed about by civilians but it is by top computer futurists such as Elon Musk, Bil Gates, and other luminaries calling it out for what it is. If the most wealthy people on the planet who are concerned the most who stand to profit the most from it and speaking out about its dangers, what does that tell us civilians?

It’s important to understand the nature of how our future will be powerfully shook quicker than most assumed. AI is being easily shaped to do anything that it is being tasked to do whether with VR, games, and robotics. World and national defense is in a much different and vulnerable timetable that hadn’t been contemplated just a few short years ago. As one might expect from breakthrough programming management technique, a much more efficiently and much faster robotic tool, is a much more deadly one.

The power to reshape the future is in the hands of those that control where and how AI is directed. It’s no longer a parlor game, AI and Robotics will change the world soon in ways never contemplated using more powerful and easier to use tools than ever. Once the genie is out of the bottle it is out forever. Rules will be necessary for generational prosperity and innovation to flourish. But as with all very powerful seismic technological breakthroughs, AI, being the most powerful on a completely different scale, without tight controls and oversight and access, carries with it potential for cataclysmic danger to life on earth is unambiguous.

Directed powerful energy in the hands of a few unaccountable bad actors and subsequent unintended consequences is sub-optimal. Powerful directed energy with targeted intentional malevolence will lead to worldwide consequential scenarios described industry as worst case.  The end of life as we know it. Or worse. Human intervention is possible only by the Knowledge Tree.