The challenge concluded yesterday, and yeah, Gabor Melis won handily; trouncing the next AI by exactly 200 points. That's significant when you take into account that the typical difference between two consecutive top 100 AIs is between 5 and 20 points.
I played around with the starter package too, but didn't have enough time to build a proper contender
-Leo
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Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 00:04:35 -0500 From: Vish Singh vishvajitsingh@gmail.com Subject: [toronto-lisp] Lisp in the Google AI challenge To: toronto-lisp@common-lisp.net Message-ID: AANLkTinm6OhqcqhRZAEtBJ5YmLgu1kz2Yg_=eAgQqz5W@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
A formidable Lisp bot, written by a Hungarian programmer, is leading the rankings by a respectable margin in the latest Google AI challenge: http://ai-contest.com/rankings.php
Let's cheer him on, and hope he stays in 1st place :)
I found out about this challenge too late and, although I played around with the Lisp Starter Pack last week, didn't have time to write a decent bot. I believe there will be another challenge next year.
Vish