Meeting and further thoughts

Today I met with Dr King to discuss my idea for my project.
He has suggested that I may want to look into other areas of A.I. as well as Neural Networks, and specifically mentioned the usage of Genetic Algorithms. It was suggested that I read around a number of areas of A.I., and see what other people have done in the area. This will help me decide exactly what I want to do and how I intend to go about it.
Basically my plan now is to research more fully into A.I. techniques, specifically ANN and GA and try to further narrow down my aim for the project. I still intend, as stated before, to create some sort of NPC that will interact with/react to the character, and I am mainly now trying to decide exactly how this will work and what will actually be done for the project.
This includes the practical element as well as it will be important to decide how I am going to determine whether the practical is "successful" and as a result I will need to think about ways to do this. If I use the GA, then I will be able to compare the Adaptive A.I. that the GA's create to the original A.I. without the adaption. However it will be important to do this in such a way as it is visibly different, and would be best if there was an obvious method of measurement, so as to fully demonstrate the differences. Another thing to consider with A.I. is that there are often numerous ways to go about things, even including a drawing together of parts of different techniques (such as using one A.I. method to teach the entity offline and another to adapt it online), and as a result it may be possible to make comparisons to similar studies where similar techniques were used but in a different way. However in that case it would be important to ensure that the two methods were different and that enough information was provided to make a proper comparison.
On the practical front I also need to consider what I am going to use as a basis for my application.