AI Again - It Is All In The Mathematics Not The Marketing Hype

It is quite humbling to try and follow a great mathematician explaining complex subject matter and bringing an analogy to AI, outlining the consequences to what we think know about our use of AI (see link below):  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukpCHo5v-Gc

If you thought you know what AI us and you knew what you were dealing with and how to work with it, then my friend the chances are you are sadly mistaken!

Not killer robots but killer stupidity awaits.

Cool Maths Lecture on Games - Professor Sarah Hart

Well worth registering and logging in to see this (and best of all it is free). Mathematics for Board Games - a very interesting topic and non-trivial but presented in a easy to digest way (see below, and tell me why was Maths not this interesting at school for me?): 

https://www.gresham.ac.uk/whats-on/maths-games

Lots more interesting stuff on the site too!

PS: Hope for humans playing Go against AI too:

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/02/man-beats-machine-at-go-in-human-victory-over-ai/

Simple Rules but Complex Game Play: Gangster Mob Game

One of the interesting themes I like seeing in wargames (and in particularly games with the crazy bunch of people from Wargames Developments) is when the concept of a game is pitched back to its most basic form - but still plays well. The basis of a few rules that devolve "great simplicity" or as John Gribbins would say Deep Simplicity (see below, a book on chaos that I liked reading): 

One such game Quadwrangles was a mobster themed gang war in old Chicago Town (see below, the godfathers of the mafia muster their forces in a showdown):

Random resource placement, variable [mob] weapon values and a chaotic sequence of play makes it interesting (see below, blood on the streets and one family finally dominates):

Stripped back without teh chrome to its basic form (see below, more network math than mob): 

It plays well with friends. This themes and many other themes are bundled together and available at:

• https://www.wargamevault.com/product/389744/Quadwrangles--Hegemony-through-History?src=hottest_filtered

Note: Note I am not the author or on commission ;)  

Interesting Blog Post - Simplicity in Wargaming

http://flagsofvictory.blogspot.com/search/label/Simplicity%20in%20Practice

For those of a mathematical gaming inclination .. check out a new Blog called Wargaming Mechanics

http://wargaming-mechanics.blogspot.co.uk/2017/