“tic tac toe” by Lobo Licious - site

“fj and I had a chat this morning about the end of civilization (he sent me that wiki link, which precipitated the discussion). Anyway, that links to technological singularity (or vice versa, I forget). This discussion reminded me that for a class I took during the Spring of 2004, I had to write a program that plays tic tac toe. Technically, I should say “we,” since I had a partner, but I wrote the program and he did the manual enumeration of a tic tac toe decision tree. I think I picked the easier half of the assignment. If you want to see the tree, too bad. You’ll have to do that part of the assignment yourself.

The class was ‘Cognitive Engineering;’ it was all about Turing machines and Turing tests such. This assignment related to the cognitive aspects of problem solving and whether or not a machine could duplicate them. It’s a very (extremely) simple AI. So noone can ever say that I didn’t do my part to help bring about a technological singularity. Maybe that’s not such a good thing.”