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Do computers destroy top backgammon players in the same way as chess and go?

• moomin 6y ago
  No, they’re _much_ better. Backgammon AI has achieved supremacy years before chess.
  • gerdesj 6y ago
    Who gets to roll the dice 8) Would you mind pointing me at some sources please? I'd be intrigued to see if any algorithms or other insights have come out of the AI stuff.
    • currymj 6y ago
      TD-Gammon from 1992 was an early success of neural network based reinforcement learning. Descendants of the technique remain standard today in RL.
    • shoy 6y ago
      Snowie, and Jellyfish.
  • Syzygies 6y ago
    For anyone interested in neural nets Backgammon makes a fascinating example. Essentially, AI computes the value of each position. Like a dome roof, the entire height could be off by a fraction of a percent, but all that matters is the relative values of the possible next moves. These valuations converge much faster than the overall function.