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Invention: The Strategy Predictor

Posted August 20, 2007 9:22 AM

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Could a computer predict your next move in a game of strategy based only on observations of your past behaviour? The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) certainly hopes so. It has funded a project led by computer scientist H. Van Dyke Parunak to explore the idea. Artificial intelligence experts normally approach this problem by assuming that the inner state of a person (or an "agent" in AI parlance) can be described in terms of beliefs, desires and goals. Since these goals determine an agent's actions, it should then to be possible to use this knowledge to make predictions about the agent's future actions. Parunak claims to have used these ideas with some success in making predictions about future behaviour. He says his simulation works in relatively complex environments, making predictions in real-time.

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08/20/2007 11:15 AM

Could a computer predict your next move in a game of strategy based only on observations of your past behaviour?

Yes of course!

...and it may well be right in a game...but in anything more complex it will probably be wrong if any of the previous behaviour prediction software is anything to go by.

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08/21/2007 8:03 AM

So the effect is people will become more erratic in their behavior so their actions can't be predicted. Great, this is just what the world needs.

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