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Games have long served as a testing ground for understanding problem-solving and strategic reasoning in humans and machines, across many fields – from AI, to cognitive science, economics, and more. Yet, in life people are regularly faced not just with repeated instances of the same problem or “system of rule and reward”, but entirely new problems, new systems, new games. And when encountering new games, people not only need to decide what actions to take but whether a game is even worth playing at all! How can people think reasonably about new games for the first time, so flexibly and quickly? We take steps towards this question in our new work, out now in @Nature!
Exciting new paper on how people choose what to do when playing games they have never seen before, a very different challenge from learning how to make better moves in a familiar game.
Games have long served as a testing ground for understanding problem-solving and strategic reasoning in humans and machines, across many fields – from AI, to cognitive science, economics, and more. Yet, in life people are regularly faced not just with repeated instances of the same problem or “system of rule and reward”, but entirely new problems, new systems, new games. And when encountering new games, people not only need to decide what actions to take but whether a game is even worth playing at all! How can people think reasonably about new games for the first time, so flexibly and quickly? We take steps towards this question in our new work, out now in @Nature!