Google AI Challenge

[Kirby]

I've been playing around with this "Google AI Challenge" a bit, lately: http://ai-contest.com/

It's kind of fun, in case anybody else is interested.

[DrStraw]

I am not interested in anything from Google and have not been for a long time. They track everything you do. I heard yesterday, from a reiable source, that they have recently contracted with the CIA to work on a repository of information about everyone because they have more information about you than the government.

[Solomon]

^ That wasn't needed. This is a CS thread to discuss an AI project, not a thread to bring up Google politics.

[Kirby]

I am not interested in anything from Google and have not been for a long time. They track everything you do. I heard yesterday, from a reiable source, that they have recently contracted with the CIA to work on a repository of information about everyone because they have more information about you than the government.

In that case, you can call it the "University of Waterloo AI Challenge"...

[Zwergesel]

I just submitted an entry and am now waiting for it to be ranked!
For now I just used some very simple rules, so it can beat the example bots. Depending on how much time I have, I might or might not improve it

[daniel_the_smith]

As if I had spare time, I started writing a bot for this, too, let's hope they start accepting entries written in go... I wrote a starter package and everything for them... http://ai-contest.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=883

EDIT: what are you guys' bots called?

[imabuddha]

They track everything you do.

So does nearly every other website, service, & ISP. If you're really concerned about that then I'd advise staying away from anything electronic and changing your nickname to DrTinfoil.

[Zwergesel]

My bot's performing better than I expected:
Rank 859 at the moment with 15 won 6 lost.
I'm registered with the name Zwejahjfa there.

[DrStraw]

They track everything you do.

So does nearly every other website, service, & ISP. If you're really concerned about that then I'd advise staying away from anything electronic and changing your nickname to DrTinfoil.

That is why the only search engine I will use is startpage. They do not keep a record of your searches

[freegame]

This weekend I also made an account. I'm freegame on there as well (my account)
I Had a couple of tries. The latest one I made has these stats.

rank: 1210

I'm quite happy with that, considering I'm a mechanical engineer and not a software engineer.

@Zwergesel do you know how I can find your profile (or search for any other profile for that matter)?

[daniel_the_smith]

I'm still waiting for them to get golang working on the official server, but on the test tcp server I'm now hovering around 100 Elo: http://72.44.46.68/getratings (search for "pwwax"). Looking at the other bots on that server I'm guessing that'd be somewhere between place 100 and 500 on the offical server...

Games: http://72.44.46.68/getplayer?player=pwwax.7

[daniel_the_smith]

Golang is finally enabled ^^

I'm in the 220's atm: http://ai-contest.com/profile.php?user_id=10821

EDIT: Kirby and Zwergesel, you should link to your profiles...

[Dusk Eagle]

Hmm, I did not realize this was being hosted by the University of Waterloo Computer Science club (I am attending UW right now). I don't know if I'll actually join in on this, but I'll definitely keep an eye on it.

[flOvermind]

I'm currently at 440, with an extremely simple and actually quite stupid bot:
http://ai-contest.com/profile.php?user_id=11208

But I haven't updated it in a while. I hope I find some time to implement a few more ideas before the deadline.

By the way, I refuse to just hard-code a sophisticated strategy. I want to see how far I can get using generic AI techniques only

[Sverre]

This looks cool. My bot is at rank 602 so far. It seems fairly simple to get here, but I think the competition is steeper further up the ladder.