games and stuff to play around with
games and stuff to play around with
An AI that studies your patterns. You are less random than you think.
This isn't the fair, random rock paper scissors you played as a kid. This opponent watches every throw you make, builds a model of your habits, and predicts your next move based on your recent patterns. Humans are famously terrible at being random: we avoid repeating the same throw three times, we switch after losses, we favor rock under pressure. The AI knows all of this, because you keep telling it.
Under the hood it uses a Markov chain: it tracks which move you tend to play after each sequence of your previous moves, then plays the counter to its best prediction. The confidence meter shows how sure it is about your next throw. Early on it's guessing. Twenty rounds in, if you have any pattern at all, it will find it, and your win rate will start sliding.
Yes, but only by being genuinely unpredictable, which is much harder than it sounds. Players who track their own tendencies and deliberately break them do best. Some resort to using dice or the second hand of a clock to choose. If you consistently beat the AI over 50 rounds without external randomness, your brain is doing something statistically unusual. Share your record and prove it.