from the urls-we-dig-up dept Artificial intelligence projects
have come a long way with algorithms that can beat some of the
best humans at poker and chess and a whole bunch of other games.
There are still a few games that people can clearly play better
than computers, but that list is getting shorter all the time.
Here are just a few bots that are learning how to beat us at our
own games. - French researchers are working on software that can
learn how to play a game just by watching humans play -- and
their software has mastered games like tic-tac-toe and connect4.
More complex games like chess are a bit too difficult, but maybe
someday learning algorithms will be able to take on arbitrary
games. [url] - Playing Rock-Paper-Scissors with a robot hand
doesn't sound like a particularly winnable game -- especially
when the robot cheats all the time. This robot only takes about
a millisecond to detect what a human hand will play, so the only
winning strategy for humans is to try to come up with deceptive
ways to