AI and GAMES

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AI and GAMES
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Some games to explore

• Yahoo AI Games directory. Mostly chatbots 20
  questions is good.
• Yahoo Artificial Life . I like Insaniquarium.
• Chinook. The world man-machine champion checkers
  player.
• A Mastermind variant.
• Othello (Reversi). One of the classic neural net
  testbeds.
• Battleship (Armada).
• The entire Yahoo web games directory can be fun
  to explore. Which of these seem to have an AI
  component?

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GAMES and AI

• Most of these games are using AI. Here are some
  discussion points
• Agents which of these games have autonomous
  agents? Whats the PEAS description?
• What AI techniques are being used?
• A search (eg, for path finding)
• Alpha-Beta search (eg, for choosing a move)
• Knowledge representation
• Natural language processing
• Artificial life and flocking/swarming
• Reasoning
• learning