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Symposium will teach AIs how to wage nuclear war
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers holds a symposium every year on Computational Intelligence and Games. Part of the symposium is a sort of "Turing Test" challenge, in which contestants program an AI to play a videogame. The objective is to try to trick a panel of human judges into thinking the AI is a human player.
This year's videogame is DEFCON, the brilliant nuclear war strategy game from indie developer Introversion.A group of talented programmers will pitch their DEFCON bot against enemy bots in a series of one-on-one thermonuclear chess games. The winner is the programmer whose bot successfully annihilates its opponents and racks up the highest death count. IEEE is offering a $500 prize to the deadliest DEFCON AI bot competition winner.
This can't be a good idea. Having seen lots of science fiction movies, I know exactly how this is going to turn out: whoever wins, we lose. I urge the IEEE to rethink their choice of game. Perhaps Cooking Mama or Uno?
By apropos at 4:14 AM ON 06/17/09
wow, just had a flashback of the movie Wargames.
By JPWMS129 at 4:36 AM ON 06/17/09
Would you like to play a game?
By salwon at 8:46 AM ON 06/17/09
But the whole point of Defcon is to trick whoever you're playing with into an alliance so you can backstab them. How do you write an Asshole AI?
By KeysE2S at 12:15 PM ON 06/17/09
Global...thermonuclear...war...
By dizzy from abbreviations at 12:31 PM ON 06/17/09
What the frickin hell is an AL?
By SamusMaXximus at 12:57 PM ON 06/17/09
Let's play...Thermonuclear war!
By Felipe 058 at 2:56 PM ON 06/17/09
Haha apropos, I was thinking the same thing! Seriously though, isn't this how WarGames started out? Fifty bucks says Matthew Broderick shows up and confuses all the AIs with Tic-Tac-Toe.
By RobinB at 10:15 AM ON 06/18/09
I'm in charge of the competition at the conference! I just wanted to let you guys know that the competition is open to everyone! If you feel like writing the best bot and winning the $500 prize, please go ahead and write a bot. It costs absolutely nothing to write a bot (works with the demo version of DEFCON), for instructions visit the project homepage: http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~rb1006/projects:api
Also, the competition is not really a turing test, the human panel is just for the other competition that uses Unreal Tournament. In the DEFCON competition, the best bot wins the prize, no matter how dumb.
By boop at 2:51 PM ON 06/23/09
it's Artificial Intelligence.... SIGHS!
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