Artificial Intelligence / Unit 3 AI 0142 short lesson, about 20 seconds
MAX and MIN
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The idea
In a zero-sum game one number scores the whole outcome: one player — MAX — tries to raise it, and the other — MIN — tries to lower it.
In practice
A win worth plus one for the first player is worth minus one to the second; their interests are exact opposites.
Where people slip
The names label roles, not people — whoever moves at a fork controls that fork's choice.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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