Player of Games

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Post by vatueil » Wed, Dec 08, 2021, 5:52 AM UTC

Player of Games
arxiv.org

Re: Player of Games

#2

Post by sfkgtbor » Wed, Dec 08, 2021, 6:18 AM UTC

I really like seeing references to the Culture series when naming things:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Player_of_Games

Re: Player of Games

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Post by sdenton4 » Wed, Dec 08, 2021, 6:20 AM UTC

This 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

Re: Player of Games

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Post by dane-pgp » Wed, Dec 08, 2021, 6:27 AM UTC

sfkgtbor wrote: post #2

I really like seeing references to the Culture series when naming things: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Player_of_Games

I think it is also a reference to "PogChamp", although it's disappointing that PoG apparently wasn't evaluated against the Arcade Learning Environment (ALE) corpus of Atari 2600 games.

Re: Player of Games

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Post by bkartal » Wed, Dec 08, 2021, 6:44 AM UTC

Impressive work! Most authors, if not all, are from DeepMind Edmonton office.

Re: Player of Games

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Post by 6510 » Wed, Dec 08, 2021, 6:54 AM UTC

sdenton4 wrote: post #3

This 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.

Re: Player of Games

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Post by captn3m0 » Wed, Dec 08, 2021, 6:57 AM UTC

If 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.

Re: Player of Games

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Post by cmauniada » Wed, Dec 08, 2021, 7:00 AM UTC

bkartal wrote: post #5

Impressive work! Most authors, if not all, are from DeepMind Edmonton office.

I didn’t even know that they had an office in Edmonton...

Re: Player of Games

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Post by doctor_eval » Wed, Dec 08, 2021, 7:02 AM UTC

sfkgtbor wrote: post #2

I really like seeing references to the Culture series when naming things: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Player_of_Games

I suppose it's better than "Use of Weapons".

Re: Player of Games

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Dec 08, 2021, 7:16 AM UTC

sdenton4 wrote: post #3

This 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

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