Tic-Tac-Toe the Hard Way

By: People + AI Research
  • Summary

  • A writer and a software engineer from Google's People + AI Research team explore the human choices that shape machine learning systems by building competing tic-tac-toe agents.
    © 2024 People + AI Research
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Episodes
  • Lessons learned
    Jul 22 2020

    What have we learned about machine learning and the human decisions that shape it? And is machine learning perhaps changing our minds about how the world outside of machine learning — also known as the world — works?

    For more information about the show, check out pair.withgoogle.com/thehardway/.


    You can reach out to the hosts on Twitter: @dweinberger and @tafsiri.

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    33 mins
  • Head to Head: The Even Bigger ML Smackdown!
    Jul 22 2020

    Yannick and David’s systems play against each other in 500 games. Who’s going to win? And what can we learn about how the ML may be working by thinking about the results?

    See the agents play each other in Tic-Tac-Two!


    For more information about the show, check out pair.withgoogle.com/thehardway/.


    You can reach out to the hosts on Twitter: @dweinberger and @tafsiri.

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    24 mins
  • Enter tic-tac-two
    Jul 22 2020

    David’s variant of tic-tac-toe that we’re calling tic-tac-two is only slightly different but turns out to be far more complex. This requires rethinking what the ML system will need in order to learn how to play, and how to represent that data.

    For more information about the show, check out pair.withgoogle.com/thehardway/.


    You can reach out to the hosts on Twitter: @dweinberger and @tafsiri.

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    21 mins

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