This month, Paweł Widera is running a tutorial on Artificial Intelligence in games. We will learn how to write our own intelligent bot that will kick our backsides! The sign-up link is
https://attending.io/events/programming-ai-in-pythonTo keep things simple, we’ll be targeting a particular variant of classic 2-player pen and pencil game. The rules may be simple but the gameplay is pretty exciting!
The tutorial will introduce several heuristic search algorithms typically used in game play, starting with a random search and greedy optimisation, through minimax and its variants, to the Monte Carlo tree search. We’ll have several demo programs to play with and, at the end, we’ll have a competition. Make sure you bring your laptop!
Python beginners are welcome. If you don’t feel comfortable on your own, there will be several more experienced people who you can team up with.
As always,
Pebble and
Sharpe Recruitment will be sponsoring us!
We’ll see you there!
Scott