Artificial Intellignce
To explain Algorithms i think I’m not exactly the right person to do that, but in a very very generalized view they are basically the inner workings of the AI system that allows to to figure out the its doing and what it needs to do to do that. For instance, if in a game and enemy is chasing you is has AI and is using its algorithms to work out a path to you saying almost that is you go straight i cannot reach you, find another route, this allows for enemy’s to follow but how developed their path finding is counts for how well they can follow.
Algorithums are also like steps an object will take, for instance the pac man ghost’s, they will move around the arena and hit a junction and have to take one of three actions, they can either go up down or forwards and the algorithums go through their steps to make a decision as of which way to go then it moves in that direction. It can also be used when the player gets near the ghost, the algoithums with caluclate the path in which to reach the player, deciding when it hits a corner which direction it will need to turn in order to continue.
This is used everywhere and is the same with all objects with AI, they will use their algorithums to find ways for what they are doing, they just calculate the path and depending on the level of pathfinding they have the higher the amount of steps they take to decide how to get to the final destination, but the objects are not intelligent but just following a set code.