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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.

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.

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

DrStraw wrote: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"...

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

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?

DrStraw wrote: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.

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.

imabuddha wrote:

DrStraw wrote: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

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)?

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

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...

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.

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

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.