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I’m no chess expert but I am a game theorist. I got the feeling that AlphaZero cares about materiel only insofar as it occupies positions and projects power; i
by qubex 8y ago
I’m no chess expert but I am a game theorist.
I got the feeling that AlphaZero cares about materiel only insofar as it occupies positions and projects power; in this sense it is further in the abstract-strategy realm than grandmasters and human-coded chess programs are.
Human-style players are like quantum theory: they’re concerned with stuff. AlphaZero is like general relativity: it’s concerned with bending the backdrop so mere stuff becomes pliant and goes where it wants... of course you need stuff to bend the backdrop, but beyond that...
I don’t know if I’m making much sense, cockeyed metaphors are my only means of expressing my impressions.
- yazr 8y agoSimilar sentiment has been expressed by others. In the (simpler and less studied) game of Shogi, AG made very startling moves, which increase the number of vulnerabilities (and opportunities). AG is able to better balance all these combinatoric paths. Perhaps as humans, we have limited combinatoric capacity, and hence are biased to conservative moves to reduce our search space (so we get lower expectations since we have to bound our variance?). Whether this is less-strategic or simply less-bound-by-human-limitation is up to discussion. end-rant EDIT: Would be interested to hear your views about larger DRL domains. Drop me a line if u r interested gaxasit@getnada.com temp email.