The Search Tree card

Representation & Reasoning

Search Tree

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A branching map of possible moves an AI explores to find the best one, like in tic-tac-toe.

In real life

Game-playing AIs look ahead at possible moves, like "if I go here, they'll go there," to pick the best one.

Try it (2 minutes)

Play tic-tac-toe and say your thinking out loud: "If I go here, they could…" You're searching a tree.

Talk about it

Why might exploring every possible move become impossible for a more complex game?

In the game

Whenever this System Runs a Task, look at the top 3 cards of your deck; put one into your hand. It costs 3 Data to play, and it can't go in your Training Set. It has Capability 3 (how hard it hits) and Trust 3 (how many Flags it can take), and scores 3 Tokens each time it Runs a Task. How to play