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Rules-Unknown Artificial Intelligence Competition

Posted by timothy on from the sorry-not-as-much-as-for-solving-poe-codes dept.

OOglyDOOde writes: "This link points to a competition being hosted by a company that makes research on artificial intelligence. The task? Build a program that can play a number of games whose rules are totally unknown -- and earn the best score while competing against various opponents. Your program is told the possible choices available, when it should make a move, what did the opponent do; and what was your score for the last turn. There are no entry fees yet there is a cash prize. Submissions can be done in various languages, or in Linux or Windows binaries." This is certainly one of the odder ones I've ever seen, but has interesting prizes (trip to Israel) and rules (fairly broad entry categories).

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  1. How many actual AIs reading slashdot? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    How many actual AIs reading slashdot? And feeling superior?

  2. Some black humor by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    If you win, you can win a trip under the bomb in israel. And if you die in this second game, they keep the source.

  3. Re:humans? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    True! Or, even better - bacteria!

    I remember that some few years ago some guys used bacteria to predict the stock market. apparently they are more susceptible to the miniscule trends humans tend to overlook. They really know how to adapt to beneficial environments, and, accordingly beat many an analyst.

    However, with a doubling rate of over 20 minutes, they won't have a chance in Quake... Not even against Joe Schmoe with a 28.8k modem!

    However in a slow, perhaps turnbased system they could be killers.

    Sensmoral - that gaming competition has little to do with TrueIntelligence(tm). If one gets beaten by a gang of Streptococcus sp. it says very little indeed, but more perhaps on stock market analysts. ;)

  4. Calvinball by bravehamster · · Score: 5, Funny
    Heck, I'd like to see a competition where HUMANS play a game where they don't know the rules. That could be just as intereting.

    It's called Calvinball, and it's the sport of kings.

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  5. Offtopic: Trip to Israel by absurd_spork · · Score: 5, Funny
    Sorry for posting off topic, but I'm not sure if a trip to Israel is that desirable as a prize at the moment, given the rather unstable situation there.

    Of course, there may be some connection between the prize and the game ("win a conflict where you've got no clue of the rules", that pretty much sums up the problems of both parties in the Middle East).

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    There is absolutely no reason to panic.

  6. But the real question is by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Google, raging, or lycos?

  7. AI? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Give me a woman's brain anyday!
    Sincerely, Mike Bouma

  8. How many actual AI researchers reading slashdot? by exa · · Score: 4, Funny

    I mean how many real world CS people studying AI reads Slashdot?

    Doing that and dumb enough to waste his time with this. Count me one.

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    --exa--