Computer turns into boardgame master of all it surveys
Tuesday, July 10, 2012 - 16:30
in Mathematics & Economics
(Phys.org) -- Igniting interest in computer logic and gaming, a paper titled Learning Games from Videos Guided by Descriptive Complexity shows how computer systems can successfully learn how to play boardgames, just by its watching two-minute videos of humans playing and can then proceed to try to beat them at their own game. Łukasz Kaiser, the author of the paper, studies logic and games at Paris Diderot University in France. His research effort was to introduce a system for learning board game rules from brief videos and demonstrate it on several well-known gamessuch as Connect4,Gomoku, Pawns, and Breakthrough.