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AI System Invents New Card Games (For Humans)
jtogel writes "This New Scientist article describes our AI system that automatically generates card games. The article contains a description of a playable card game generated by our system. But card games are just the beginning... The card game generator is a part of a larger project to automatise all of game development using artificial intelligence methods — we're also working on level generation for a variety of different games, and on rule generation for simple arcade-like games."
Shall we play Global Thermonuclear War?
I eat only the real part of complex carbohydrates.
Each player gets six cards, except for the player on the dealer's right, who gets seven. .. Two jacks are a "half-fizzbin". If you have a half-fizzbin: a third jack is a "shralk" and results in disqualification. One wants a king and a deuce, except at night ...when one wants a queen and a four. The second card is turned up, except on Tuesdays.
Programmers make me laugh hysterically sometimes. Seriously, when in the history of man has an entire portion of an industry been dedicated to the following two goals:
1) Obsolescence of all current vocational knowledge in their field on 5-15 year scales.
2) The ultimate goal of their work is the removal of their job position from the market (the singularity which can hack in C).
As far as I can tell, "AI" has succeeded only in keeping the same name after endless redefinitions resulting from it's numerous failures.
Your blind faith in AI seems to indicate that you're either hopelessly misguided or one of those singularity nuts. I can only hope that you've merely been mislead...
(To Ray's deluded followers: Just get over the pretense and just worship Kurzweil the prophet outright. Failing that, at least get robes. Not only will they keep you warm, they make you and your fellow cult members easier to avoid. It's a win-win, really.)
Required reading for internet skeptics