Realm of Racket

Chapter 12. (Artificial Intelligence)

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Playing Dice of Doom against other people can be fun, but what if you could play against the program itself? What if the program were intelligent enough to win? We can make that happen with artificial intelligence (AI), that is, techniques that make programs appear as smart as people in narrow domains. In this chapter, we will make our implementation of Dice of Doom lazy and create an AI player.

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12.1 An Intelligent Life-form

Chad has finally beaten DrRacket’s Dicetromonom guard. In shock, Dicetromonom explodes, which gives Chad a chance to figure out what made Dicetromonom tick. He dissects Dicetromonom’s head and finds a small hard drive.

Chad plugs the drive into his computer and begins to examine the robot’s ...