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From: burke@cs.uchicago.edu (Robin Burke)
Subject: Re: Programs to Demonstrate AI on Mac
In-Reply-To: Stephen O'Connell's message of Mon, 11 Dec 1995 14:32:24 GMT
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Date: Wed, 13 Dec 1995 18:06:52 GMT


It's a stretch to call it AI (although the author's do), but there's a
football game that I found pretty entertaining and illustrative of
some issues in AI. I can't recall the name, but the user designs plays
and then specifies when they should be used using a probablistic
scheme. The game is then played completely by the computer -- calling
the plays based on your initial laying out of these
probabilities. 

What always happens (to me anyway) is that the computer does something
really boneheaded -- like using the same play over and over again even
when it fails -- by following the rules that you give it. This can be
very illustrative of the gap between a small set of rules and the
breadth of common sense knowledge, and of the difficulty of adequate
knowledge acquisition.

-- 

robin
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