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Artificial Intelligence has crushed all human records in 2048 (2015)
- Dwolb 11y agoThis is really cool and after reading the article, I'm left with the desire to ask a bit more. A game like 2048 is pretty straight forward and after you figure it out (i.e. you understand the 4 pieces of advice the AI figured out) the game feels like mostly chance (as the article states). >Some games ended in a few minutes due to a series of unfortunate random tile spawns, while others nearly lasted 4 hours and reached scores previously thought impossible. So is the AI's strength in this instance that it's relentless and doesn't get tired? Or does it have a few other insights on the game that most humans miss? Are there other comparisons of other AI's and where their advantage comes from? (strategy vs. endurance) Or is the AI's outcome distribution very similar to a sampling of human outcomes?
- wodenokoto 11y agoThe article is pretty weak on how the AI works, but says that the 4 rules were built in as heuristics for the AI, which makes the statement in the article about how it figured them out seem weird.
- theboywho 11y agoThe human records will shift to become about who made the AI. So in case you are afraid to no more be able to brag about having biggest, because of AI, fear not, it's like saying horses beat all human running records. It will just get forked into a new category of games.
- reustle 11y ago> human records will shift to become about who made the AI No the uman records will remain human records, and the AI records will be come AI records
- zizee 11y agoit's like saying horses beat all human running records Not to detract from your original comment, but human's are pretty competitive with horses over long distance running https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_versus_Horse_Marathon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_versus_Horse_Marathon
- mtgx 11y agoSayings "cars" beat all human records would probably be a better analogy here.
- mamon 11y agoLooking at the times of both horses and humans it seems that the main problem of this race is lack of professional competitors. When I see that the horse rider won by covering 35 km distance in 2 hours 40 minutes (on some years)then I think: that would be beaten by any professional marathon runner, who tend to beat that time on longer 42 km distance.
- beeboop 11y agoAlso major contributor is the mild weather. Make this race take place in dry 110F heat and you'd probably see very different results.
- blaze33 11y agoNope, horses are still faster than the fastest human marathon runners, see http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/a/6465 http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/a/6465
- meric 11y agoThe humans were within 20% difference of horse times, and these weren't the top human marathon runners. I'd think the use of "competitive" could be loosely allowed.
- beeboop 11y agoIt's really a matter of how long, in time, the race is. Someone in your link even mentions this. The 24 hour record for humans around 180 miles, whereas for horses it's about 100 miles. Pretty huge difference there.
- henpa 11y agoI swear I'd read some kind of "futuristic" news article (written in 2015, yes, but faking to have been written in the future). Was I wrong. ;-) Awesome nonetheless.
- halotrope 11y agoSame here. I was expecting some AI distopia story. I left disappointed for the comments despite this being a potentially interesting read.
- DavidSJ 11y agoIn the year 2049, we might read the same headline but with a very different meaning.
- devit 11y agoWow, the C++ AI linked at https://github.com/nneonneo/2048-ai https://github.com/nneonneo/2048-ai is really well written. Anyone who is interested in learning how this kind of AI works would be well served by studying that code.