TICTACTOE

Whatever name you want to give it, tictactoe has been there since ancient Egypt's time, whether you call it that or naughts and crosses. At least until we discovered that the most likely outcome was a draw, I'm sure we all played it as children. How has the game survived for so long, and what are the most recent variations of the game like?

Tictactoe and artificial intelligence in film

The 1983 film WarGames contained tictactoe, which I remember well from my childhood. (Beware of spoilers.) Using tictactoe, a computer was taught that a draw was the only possible conclusion of the game. Eventually, the computer understood that the only way to avoid losing was to stop playing altogether.

With a long history of software development, Tictactoe

The game of tictactoe has appeared numerous times in programming language courses. People have learned the principles of logic, arrays, and other programming concepts while re-creating this game, usually with simple text-based output.

Artificial Intelligence and TicTacToe

Tictactoe has long been playable versus a computer. Tictactoe has been used to demonstrate our AI in Diffblue Cover for the past few years. These Java unit tests demonstrate the ability to write tests for a purposely complex implementation of the game. Diffblue Cover's AI for Code engine can write a unit test suite in a matter of seconds.

Through the ages, the game of tictactoe has evolved with the times, and it is still popular today. So, what accounts for its popularity? In part, the lessons of tictactoe need to be learned by new generations as new generations arrive. To demonstrate their AI technology understandably, corporations are recreating their childhood games as a way to show off their AI capabilities.