DailyDirt: Games Played By Computers
from the urls-we-dig-up dept
Artificial intelligence projects have come a long way with algorithms that can beat some of the best humans at poker and chess and a whole bunch of other games. There are still a few games that people can clearly play better than computers, but that list is getting shorter all the time. Here are just a few bots that are learning how to beat us at our own games.- French researchers are working on software that can learn how to play a game just by watching humans play -- and their software has mastered games like tic-tac-toe and connect4. More complex games like chess are a bit too difficult, but maybe someday learning algorithms will be able to take on arbitrary games. [url]
- Playing Rock-Paper-Scissors with a robot hand doesn't sound like a particularly winnable game -- especially when the robot cheats all the time. This robot only takes about a millisecond to detect what a human hand will play, so the only winning strategy for humans is to try to come up with deceptive ways to play RPS. [url]
- A panel of judges couldn't tell the difference between a computer player and a human player in an Unreal tournament (in a strange kind of Turing test). Non-player characters controlled by algorithms are getting more and more human-like, and pretty soon humans won't even need to play video games anymore.... [url]
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Filed Under: ai, algorithms, game algorithms, games, npc, rps, turing test, unreal
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that's not a turing test!
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Re: that's not a turing test!
Step 1 Identify a task that you believe requires "intelligence".
Step 2 Attempt to build a system that performs the task.
Step 3a Fail - go to step 1.
Step 3b succeed continue to step 4
Step 4 - analyse your system and realise that intelligence was not really required after all - go to step 1.
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Greetings, Professor Falken
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Tic Tac Toe Multiplayer/Two Players
Two players can play with one another by simply utilizing the 3x3 board.
https://tictactoebeast.com/multiplayers
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