Games, computers, and artificial intelligenceNDHU CSIE AI Lab

羅仲耘

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Outline

• Games types– Puzzles– Two-player perfect-information games– Imperfect-information and stochastic games

• New frontiers• Predicted program strengths• Poker• Future works• References

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Puzzles

• 24-puzzles– Search-space size from O(1025) to O

(1012)

• Crossword puzzles– Without understanding the semantics

of the puzzles’ clues.

• Other Interesting puzzles– Rubik’s Cube and Sokoban.

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Two-player perfect-information games• Chess

– Deep blue

• Othello– LOGISTELLO– Improving heuristic mini-max search b

y supervised learning

• Hex– Hexy– Theorem-prover-like search

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Two-player perfect-information games (cont’)• Shogi

– Have a long way to go

• Go– Still a weak player

• Others– Draughts(10x10 checker) – Lines of Action– Amazons– Octi

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Two-player perfect-information games (cont’)

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Imperfect-information and stochastic games• Information is hidden.

• Backgammon

• Poker

• Scrabble

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New frontiers

• Any topic in interactive games– Action games– RPG– Adventure games– Strategy games– “God” games– Sport games

• Not only Graphics but also AI !

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Predicted program strengths

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Poker

• Has a number of attributes that make it an interesting domain for AI research.– Incomplete knowledge– Multiple competing agents– Risk management– Opponent modeling– Deception– Dealing with unreliable information

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Future works

• Study more references in these papers.

• Study related mathematics (e.g. probability)

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References

• Games, computers and artificial intelligence / Jonathan Schaeffer, H. Jaap van den Herik

• The challenge of Poker/ Darse Billings, Aaron Davidson, Jonathan Schaeffer, Duane Szafron

• Games solved: Now and in the future/ H. Jaap van den Herik, Jos W.H.M. Uiterwijk, Jack van Rijswijck

• All from Artificial Intelligence 134 (2002)

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Thanks for your attention!