Artificial Intelligence / Unit 1 AI 0028 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Other Minds
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The idea
An environment containing other decision-makers requires reasoning about their choices — as opponents, as partners, or both.
In practice
Haggling at a market stall: the vendor's price is a move made in anticipation of your counter, which anticipates hers.
Where people slip
Weather is stochastic but indifferent; an opponent studies you back — a difference in kind, not degree.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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