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As if the only purpose to play a game were to win it.
by stakkur 6y ago
As if the only purpose to play a game were to win it.
- exporectomy 6y agoAI researchers use games because they're a tractable problem with clearly quantified metrics of success. It's not to win the game but to advance the field. Sometimes it might be just to publish a paper and seem cool, but every game that falls to AI feels like a step closer to AGI, or at least to better self-driving cars and other simpler kinds of AI.