tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-180192357104553952.post8079655719865792091..comments2024-03-23T06:19:48.477-05:00Comments on Memphis MOJO: What happens when it's machine vs. machine?Memphis MOJOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12653631347560307425noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-180192357104553952.post-37870716425766099512008-08-10T20:46:00.000-05:002008-08-10T20:46:00.000-05:00There is no strict definition of robot. However, m...There is no strict definition of robot. However, most of my colleagues and myself define a robot as something that senses and reacts to its environment. A virtual-agent is simply an artificial intelligence, and can often be called a bot. Though bot was originally coined to be short for robot, at this point it has a different meaning. Bots are computer agents of artificial intelligence that perform some task automatically. A robot still needs to be physically sensing an environment.<BR/><BR/>As for whether computer bridge players can eventually beat out the world bridge players, the engineering mind in me makes me think we should be able to encode all the bridge rules and exceptions and accomplish this somehow. Meanwhile, having heard great experts describe how they figure thing out, I realize there is an aspect that you cannot arrive to using a decision tree or even a probabilistic model. I've always thought that there are two types of players who consistently do well at national events. The first type is the type who got into duplicate bridge because it's one big math/logic puzzle. The second type is the type who got into it at a young age due to family members in the game. The latter type is particularly interesting. There is so much that they can do in their heads directly related to bridge that they cannot calculate if you were to restate the problem in sticks and balls. Yet, somehow they can compute more of the complex bridge calculations in their minds in fractions of a second than the best of the previous type. So maybe while everything can supposedly be stated in rules and exceptions, choosing which one to follow isn't necessarily easy to determine.RoboJennyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04085723385146006020noreply@blogger.com