Google's self-learning AI AlphaZero masters chess in 4 hours - Beating previous best chess engine StockFish in 100-match tournament

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[–]trident765 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

These AIs just work by training on lots of data.

You can make a simple chess algorithm that works by just searching for your position in a massive database of grandmaster games, and picking the move the grandmaster made.

Google's algorithm might perform a little better because it would do some interpolation if the position is not in the database, but this is essentially what it is.

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I believe the point here is that Google's algo didn't use any database of grandmaster games, or chess history at all. It "learned it all" in "4 hours". Yes I suffered through the whole damn video.

[–]trident765 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Ok, then what I wrote doesn't apply.

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hahha,. The devil is in the details. What if google trained* their algo against stockfish itself?