Playing monopoly using Human Level Artificial Intelligence

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This video shows a robot playing a board game called Monopoly. There are no sound in the video because I wanted to show the viewers what the robot is thinking while playing the game. The flashing text and freeze frames are the internal thoughts of the robot and not instruction text for the viewers. These internal thoughts describe the details of how the robot produce intelligence.

My robot doesn't use: planning programs/heuristic searches (used by MIT and Stanford University), Bayesian's probability theories for decision making, Bayesian's equation for induction and deduction, semantic networks for natural language understanding, predicate calculus, common sense systems, first-order logic, rule-based systems, genetic programming, or MACHINE LEARNING.

In this game, the robot's goal is to beat the opponent. Monopoly is a game that can be really simple or really complex. The really complex stuff is when players start buying houses and hotels. The robot playing the game has a basic understanding of monopoly and had the intention of playing the game for a short period of time. He doesn't overwelm himself with complex rules or procedures.

When the robot plays the game, he is constantly looking at the monopoly board. When this happens, the robot is reminded of facts and rules about the game. In particular, when the robot focuses on specific things like the community chest slot, he will activate specific rules and facts about community chest. For example, when the robot lands on the community chest slot, he will activate the thought: "pick up the community chest card and follow the instructions". When the robot lands on the space that says he has to go to jail, facts and procedures activate in his mind. The thought activates in the robot's mind: pick up your game piece and put it on the jail space. Other facts and rules activate when the robot focuses on the jail space. For example, rules start to activate: when you are in jail, you have to pay $50 or roll a double to get out.

Other rules of the game activate in the background. The robot does things in the game without consciously thinking. Things like, move the game pieces clockwise or start at go, are just some rules the robot follows automatically, without thinking. The reason for this is because the robot has played board games in the past and his intelligent pathways in memory are conditioned strongly. Because of experience, the instructions in the pathways does repeated things automatically, without consciously thinking.

Unfortunately there are no good strategies to use to play monopoly. The rolling of the dices and the places you land are based on randomness. And because some features in the game are absent, such as auctions and negotiations, the robot has limited strategies to use in the game. Unfortunately, this video simply shows a player (the robot) rolling the dices, moving, and buying property. The opponent and player takes turns doing this over and over and over again.

The robot was able to exact intelligent pathways from memory and these intelligent pathways was able to form a computer program to play monopoly. This computer program will manage tasks, rules, and procedures when playing monopoly. Remember, this computer program is formed inside the robot's mind. It has adaptive behavior and changes as the game changes.