Rules-Unknown Artificial Intelligence Competition

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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Calvinball

[bravehamster]

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.

Offtopic: Trip to Israel

[absurd_spork]

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).

But the real question is

[Anonymous Coward]

Google, raging, or lycos?

How many actual AI researchers reading slashdot?

[exa]

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.