Building an AI that Can Beat You at Your Own Game – Towards Data Science

The full instructions are here, and a sample game is here. AIs are now better than humans at Backgammon, Checkers, Chess, Othello, and Go. See Audrey Keurenkov's A'Brief' History of Game AI Up to AlphaGo for a more in-depth timeline. In 2017, Michael Tucker, Nikhil Prabala, and I set out to create PAI, the world's first AI for Pathwayz. The AIs for Othello and Backgammon were especially relevant to our development of PAI. Othello, like Pathwayz, is a relatively young game -- at least compared to the ancient Backgammon, Checkers, Chess, and Go.