Magarena lightning talk

speaker: Melvin event: Friday Hacks, NUS Hackers event: Hack and Tell, HackerspaceSG ** show Magarena on screen ** what is Magic ** interesting AI challenges *** hidden information *** hard to evalute the game state each card can change the rules of the game ** paper on new AI for Go (2007) combines monte carlo simulations and multi arm bandit cheating -> non cheating ** card scripting ** firemind.ch “AI as a service” ** Future *** automatic parsing of rules text *** multi threaded MCTS, increase simulations/sec *** MCTS reducing stupid moves, hybrid MCTS + minimax *** UI issues