The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers have created a game called DEFCON, which is basically a nuclear war game where every body dies. Pretty intimidating isn’t it? This is going to be an actual strategic video game, that will be hosted, and whoever gets the most points and kill rates gets a $500 prize. If you ask me this is going to be the beginning of everyone killing everyone.
Part of the symposium is a sort of “Turing Test” challenge, in which contestants program an AI to play a videogame. The objective is to try to trick a panel of human judges into thinking the AI is a human player.
This year’s videogame is DEFCON, the brilliant nuclear war strategy game from indie developer Introversion.A group of talented programmers will pitch their DEFCON bot against enemy bots in a series of one-on-one thermonuclear chess games. The winner is the programmer whose bot successfully annihilates its opponents and racks up the highest death count. IEEE is offering a $500 prize to the deadliest DEFCON AI bot competition winner.
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