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Computers to humans: Shall we play a game?

  • Written by Arend Hintze, Assistant Professor of Integrative Biology & Computer Science and Engineering, Michigan State University
imageArtificial intelligence can bring many benefits to human gamers.Sam Jordan Belanger, CC BY-ND

Way back in the 1980s, a schoolteacher challenged me to write a computer program that played tic-tac-toe. I failed miserably. But just a couple of weeks ago, I explained to one of my computer science graduate students how to solve tic-tac-toe using the...

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