Category: BRIGHTLinks Game Theory

Are you a gamer? You’re in luck. Students from BRIGHTLinks explain scientific studies about game theory, human response to games, and artificial intelligence.

Teaching a computer to play the game Go is difficult A mathematical strategy called Objective Monte-Carlo helped a team of researchers teach a computer how to play the ancient and complex game called Go, and possibly other equally complex games.

Posted on December 23, 2021November 29, 2021 by Julian Reder 356 views

A mathematical strategy called Objective Monte-Carlo helped a team of researchers teach a computer how to play the ancient and complex game…

How old and young people react to the Prisoner’s Dilemma The Prisoner's Dilemma is a thought experiment where two suspects are asked to betray one another in exchange for lesser sentences. Studies show that when different people of different age groups and backgrounds are presented with a Prisoner's Dilemma, they react in different ways.

Posted on December 6, 2021November 29, 2021 by Sophia Sostak 3k views

This study was the first to report on different age groups’ interactions with different people when presented with a multi-round…

Artificial intelligence can learn to play a complex war game Reinforcement learning is a type of artificial intelligence that can teach a computer to play a simple game like Backgammon. A team of scientists recently learned that it also isn’t too bad at playing the very complex war game called Battleground.

Posted on November 25, 2021November 23, 2021 by Tyler Johnson and Isaac Reibman 929 views

A team of scientists recently learned that "reinforcement learning" can be used to play a very complex war game.

Can a computer learn to play Settlers of Catan? It's not easy to teach a computer to play board games with lots of rules like Settlers of Catan. This team of scientists used an algorithm callled a Monte-Carlo Tree Search to make a skilled "artificial intelligence" Catan player that learns as it goes.

Posted on November 22, 2021November 16, 2021 by Isaac Kneubuhl 1k views

At a glance, board games may seem to have no connection to artificial intelligence (AI). However, board games are quite useful when studying…