You vs. Computer!

8/3/2011

This interactive game demonstrates how computers can 'learn.'

Play the game with the computer on 'Novice' mode to have the computer learn how to play rock, paper, scissors from scratch.

Then, play the game on 'veteran' mode, to allow the computer to search a database of past experiences and use that knowledge against you.

Play 15 rounds in each and report your score in the comments section!

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/science/rock-paper-scissors.html?ref=science

13 Comments

Chloe :)

8/3/2011 05:48:50 am

Novice:

Wins: 4
Ties: 4
Loses:7

Veteran:
Wins: 1
Ties: 4
Loses: 10

David

8/3/2011 07:31:23 am

I know how to always beat the computer on veteran!

Novice

11 wins
2 tie
2 loses

veteran
8 wins
1 loss
6 ties

Meg....

9/3/2011 04:59:13 am

Novice

Wins: 9
Ties: 2
Losses: 4

Veteran

Wins: 7
Ties: 2
Losses: 6

Audrey kearns blake

9/3/2011 07:05:01 am

Novice

Me: 3
ties: 4
Novice: 8

Veteran

me: 4
Ties:6
win:5

kian Chalwell

10/3/2011 03:58:53 am

me:11
tie:1
novice:13

veteran

me:8
tie:7
computer:6

Joe

12/3/2011 01:52:11 am

Novice:
Me : 9
Tie : 6
Computer : 5

Veteran:

Me: 18
Tie : 0
Computer : 2

I knew that the computer would learn from my moves so when i was playing in novice, I threw paper and rock only and in random order, as a result, the scores were quite random.

Thin in veteran mode, i threw scissors often, this utterly confused the computer, after a while though the computer picked up on that so what i would to is throw rock 3 times, the computer would pick up on that every three goes so then i would throw scissors three times knowing that it would think that i was going to throw rock and therefor it would throw paper. I would then throw paper three times, as it would think that i was going to throw scissors and therefore throw rock.

Samantha A link

14/3/2011 08:16:42 am

Novice:

Me: 8
Tie : 4
Comp: 3

Veteran

Me: 5
Tie: 3
Comp: 7

James Nicholas

14/3/2011 11:55:50 pm

Novice:

Win for me: 7
Ties:5
Loses for me: 2

Veteran:

Win for me: 6
Ties: 6
Loses for me: 2

Chelsi FS

15/3/2011 08:08:21 am

Novice:

Wins: 3
Ties: 6
Losses: 6

Veteran:

Wins: 5
Ties: 4
Losses: 6

Beccy

17/3/2011 08:14:48 am

I played this once before when I was finding the article I wanted to do for my current events article and I won every time on both! I am awesome at rock paper scissors now lets see the scores if I try again:

Novice:

Wins for me: 12
Ties: 2
Wins for Computer: 1

Veteran:

Wins for me: 9
Ties: 2
Wins for Computer: 3

Told you I was good!

Robert Poole

18/3/2011 02:09:48 am

Novice:
Me : 9
Tie : 6
Computer : 5

Veteran:
Me:10
Tie: 0
wins for computer: 4

jason

6/6/2011 02:19:05 am

novie

Wins: 9
Ties: 2
Losses: 4

Veteran

Wins: 7
Ties: 2
Losses: 6

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I did, not sure about my husband, lol). I didn't know much at all about the language of a computer.

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