Game Theory and Artificial Intelligence

Continuing our series of articles about the different foundational aspects of artificial intelligence(AI), today I would like to focus on game theory. Games have been one of the most visible areas of progress in the AI space in the last few years. Chess, Jeopardy, GO and, very recently, Poker are some of the games that have been mastered by AI systems using break through technologies. From that viewpoint, the success of AI seems to be really tied to the progress on game theory. While games are, obviously, the most visible materialization of game theory, is far from being the only space on which those concepts are applied.