Sorry that I don't know where to obtain the video, but I just wanted to
mentionn that I have played tic-tac-toe with a chicken myself. Our local
amusement park, Valley Fair, used to have such a game. Since you could not
see the chicken's side of the board, I have always assumed that a computer
chip lighted the desired move for the chicken, and the chicken was trained
to peck the lighted square, a real no-brainer and entirely appropriate for
a chicken. It is quite easy to write a program that plays tic-tac-toe
without losing. I did that once for a project in grad school.
At 9:28 AM -0600 2/10/99, Claudia Stanny wrote:
>Calvin Trillin has a wonderful piece in this week's issue of The New Yorker
>about a chicken that plays tic-tac-toe in a an arcade game. He talks about
>the training of the chicken(s) for these games, originally by the Brelands
>and later by the Baileys. He also mentions that he once saw a video of B.
>F. Skinner playing tic-tac-toe with one of these chickens. Since the game
>is set up so the chicken always goes first and, I assume, response choice
>is directed by a simple computer program, the chicken almost invariably
>wins. (Trillin notes that Skinner once managed to eke out a draw from the
>chicken.)
>
>My question is: Has anybody seen this video or know of its whereabouts? I
>would love to obtain a copy.
>
>Claudia
>
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