Artificial Intelligence

The AI conference system is flawed

It is widely known that there is a lot of “random noise” in AI conference paper acceptances. For example, an experiment was done at the conference NIPS several years ago showing that paper acceptances were much closer to random chance than initially expected. In that…

Academic AI game theory

There has recently been a lot of attention for AI game theory — the branch focused on large-scale imperfect-information game solving in particular — in part due to success of poker AI agents such as Libratus and Pluribus in defeating top human players. Many outlets have referred to…

Optimal Final Jeopardy wagering

On the 6/3/19 episode of Jeopardy, which ended up being James Holzhauer’s final episode, the following scenario arose for Final Jeopardy. The scores were $11,000 for Jay, $23,400 for James, and $26,600 for Emma, with final jeopardy category “Shakespeare’s Time.”

Most important open problems in computational game theory

There has been recent success in creating strong algorithm agents for large two-player zero-sum games (e.g., for computer poker). However…