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People have been playing chess for about 1,500 years. In that time it’s been studied and analyzed in a search for the best strategies for winning.

Recently, Google’s Deep Mind was tasked with doing the same thing - start with just the rules of the game and random moves, and by playing games against itself learn the best strategies to win.

Which it did. In about 4 hours. Well enough to win against the best chess program out there, Stockfish, in a 100 game tournament. And more than enough to defeat virtually any human opponent.

Details here: https://www.chess.com/news/view/google-s-alphazero-destroys-stockfish-in-100-game-match

Anyway, I do find that fascinating - and humbling.
 
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I just hope that they can program these artificially intelligent machines to be lenient slave masters.
 
I'm pretty sure I'm living in the Matrix anyway. It's the only possible explanation for my so-called life. Now, do I take the blue pill or the red pill.....
 
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I'm pretty sure I'm living in the Matrix anyway. It's the only possible explanation for my so-called life. Now, do I take the blue pill or the red pill.....
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Can you mix them up and have a purple pill?
 
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Definitely the blue pill...
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FastEddieB said:
People have been playing chess for about 1,500 years. In that time it’s been studied and analyzed in a search for the best strategies for winning.

Recently, Google’s Deep Mind was tasked with doing the same thing - start with just the rules of the game and random moves, and by playing games against itself learn the best strategies to win.

Which it did. In about 4 hours. Well enough to win against the best chess program out there, Stockfish, in a 100 game tournament. And more than enough to defeat virtually any human opponent.

Details here: https://www.chess.com/news/view/google-s-alphazero-destroys-stockfish-in-100-game-match

Anyway, I do find that fascinating - and humbling.
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Don't be humbled. . .I can fly a plane, knit a scarf, write a poem or a book, draw conclusions from intuitive cognition, be awed and overwhelmed and rise above both, nurture a child, kill an enemy, feel shame and remorse, and pride and passion, build a house, climb a rock, call out to God, and imagine the future. And I don't need a human to supply me electricty to do so. Bet you can do a bunch of stuff, too. . .
 
The Economist recently published an article on AI progress on playing GO. The first iteration took several years to code and teach. The next version, they just gave it the basic rules and it taught itself by playing millions of games. This one took 2 DAYS to be able to beat humans.

To fully appreciate this, there are 10 to the 170th power permutations of GO positions. There is nothing in the physical universe that can be used as an analogue. There are "only" 10 to the 80th atoms in the universe.

But I am not worried about AI taking over as there is a big difference between sapience and sentience, these machine are uber sapient but so far have shown zero signs of sentience. I suspect that we will discover that sentience is rooted in biology, not computer science.
 
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