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Is a normal chess program capable of reasoning?

• chpatrick 4y ago
  In the narrow field of chess, yes.
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• wizzwizz4 4y ago
  I would say so. Logical reasoning is not a hard thing to program a computer to do: the really hard part is to reason about the real world, rather than just a manually-defined world model. Traditional algorithms are vanguards of pure reason. Neural networks are super-intuition. Stockfish unites the two, executing an efficient intuitive heuristic search over the solution space of “moves in a chess game” – but no matter how cool the robot arm you build for it, Stockfish could never learn to assemble furniture.
• Symmetry 4y ago
  The Monte Carlo analysis AlphaZero used functioned as a sort of multi-step reasoning for it. GPT can use its token buffer for some multi-step reasoning but that sort of interferes with providing a conversation with the user so it's much less effective.