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Why would I want to use an AI to win a game of chess? Where's the fun and challenge in it? "Go win me a chess tournament" is the wish nobody has unless we are t
by surfingdino 2y ago
Why would I want to use an AI to win a game of chess? Where's the fun and challenge in it? "Go win me a chess tournament" is the wish nobody has unless we are talking about someone who wants to pretend to be a chess master. It's still a small market. Examples like these are very common in the AI community, they are solutions to problems nobody has.
- ben_w 2y ago> Why would I want to use an AI to win a game of chess? https://www.bbc.com/news/world-63043023 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-63043023 Though such a question misses the point: use the right tool for the job. (For a non-ML example, I don't know why 5/8 wrenches exist, but I'm confident of two things: (1) that's a very specific size, unlikely to be useful for a different sized problem; (2) using one as a hammer would be sub-optimal). I'm not interested in creating a taxonomy of special purpose AI models which each do one thing well and nothing else. What I can do is give a handful of famous examples, such as chess. Other choices at my disposal (but purely off the top of my head and in no way systematic) include the use of OCR to read and hence sort post faster than any human and also more accurately than all but the very best. Or in food processing for quality control (I passed up on a student work placement for that 20 years ago). Or the entirity of Google search, Gmail's spam filters, Maps' route finding and at least some of its knowledge of house numbers, their CAPTCHA system, and Translate (the one system on this list which is fundamentally the same an LLM). Or ANPR. It's like you're saying "food is bad" because you don't like cabbage — the dislike is a valid preference, of course it is, but it doesn't lead to the conclusion.