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The Applied Artificial Intelligence Workshop
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An AI game player is nothing but an intelligent agent with a clear goal: to win the game and defeat all the other players. AI experiments have achieved surprising results when it comes to games. Today, no human can defeat an AI in the game of chess.
The game Go was the last game where human players could consistently defeat a computer player. However, in 2017, Google's game-playing AI called AlphaGo defeated the world number 1 ranked Go player.
An intelligent agent plays according to the rules of the game. The agent can sense the current state of the game through its sensors and can evaluate the potential steps. Once the agent finds the best possible step, it performs the action using its actuators. The agent finds the best possible action to reach the goal based on the information it has. Actions are either rewarded or punished. The carrot and stick are excellent examples of rewards and punishment. Imagine a donkey in front...