You vs Machine

Can you beat an IA ?

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Can you beat an IA ?

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If an AI always plays optimal binary search, what strategy would you use to beat it? I built a small daily puzzle around this idea.

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One thing I’m curious about is whether humans actually try to follow the optimal strategy. Binary search is mathematically optimal if you only care about minimizing the worst-case number of guesses. But when you're playing as a human, you might try different approaches depending on intuition. For example: – do you always split the interval exactly in half? – do you try to anticipate where the number might be? – do you sometimes take “riskier” guesses to potentially win faster? I’d be really curious to hear what strategy people would try before seeing the optimal one.

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