I really like seeing references to the Culture series when naming things: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Player_of_Games
Kinda ironic since in the novel, a human player is better than the strong AI (albeit a little inexplicably).
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#12This is clearly part of DeepMind's long-game plan to achieve world domination through board game mastery. Naming the new algorithm after the book is a real tip of their hand... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Player_of_Games
Pretty amazing book. I wish I could play a board game like that as well.
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#13I really like seeing references to the Culture series when naming things: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Player_of_Games
Kinda ironic since in the novel, a human player is better than the strong AI (albeit a little inexplicably).
I thought the protagonist wasn't nearly as talented as the culture AIs (even the ones that are not all that powerful)?
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#14The future is so depressing
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#15If you are interested in this, I maintain a list of boardgame-solving related research at https://github.com/captn3m0/boardgame-research , with sections for specific games. This looks really interesting. It would be a good project to test this against a general card-playing framework to easily test it on a variety of imperfect-information games based on playing cards.
This looks very good, thanks.
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#16I really like seeing references to the Culture series when naming things: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Player_of_Games
Kinda ironic since in the novel, a human player is better than the strong AI (albeit a little inexplicably).
No he is not, but AIs are not allowed in the competition the story centers around.
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#17The future is so depressing
Fun fact: The consensus between professional go and chess players is that all new AI systems (alphago, etc) have really revitalised the game and introduced incredible amount of new strategies and depth.
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#18I really like seeing references to the Culture series when naming things: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Player_of_Games
Allusions are fun and all, but I disagree. These are important problems that a lot of people have put their whole careers into researching. Silly names like these lack gravitas.
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#19This is clearly part of DeepMind's long-game plan to achieve world domination through board game mastery. Naming the new algorithm after the book is a real tip of their hand... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Player_of_Games
The end game is pinball and we are the balls.
We are the pins.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Kinda ironic since in the novel, a human player is better than the strong AI (albeit a little inexplicably).
No he is not, but AIs are not allowed in the competition the story centers around.
Near the end of the competition, as he is deep in his analysis, the light craft AI gives up on helping him since it gets overwhelmed. Granted it's not a full Culture Mind (kinda hazy, been a while) but still a point for the meatbag.