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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some design specs for potential participants

[beanerspace]

After reading the guidelines to the contest, I figured I'd offer the following models/design specs for those interested in participating:

• Understanding how the Brain works
• When will computer hardware match the human brain?
• How your Brain Works
• How the Human Brain Developed and How the Human Mind Works
• Theory of Sequentially Timed Learning
• If your toaster had a brain
• neuroinformatics (please don't confuse with clam-baking)
• Brain Implants Control Computers

Re:Easier than I feared

[Anonymous Coward]

Try reading the specs.

"Score" is the number of points scored that turn. It is a floating point number between -1 and 1.

The goal *is* to get the highest score.

Re:random fortune...

[jesser]

I don't get it. Is Minsky trying to say that using a random neural net doesn't mean that the net won't have any preconceptions?