[ExI] alpha zero

[John Clark]

On Sun, Dec 10, 2017 at 10:48 AM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:



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> Ja of course this is impressive, but consider all the ways this could be
> achieved that would look like it had trained itself from nothing in a day.
> An eager press corps could report the program was given nothing but the
> rules of chess, when in reality it was given the StockFish chess engine
> with no opening book.  That would constitute being given chess rules only,
> if the phrase is interpreted broadly.  In fact, that would be a good
> approach to the problem: StockFish code is highly optimized already, so
> there is no need to reinvent that wheel.
>
>
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I don't think that's what they did but if it was it would be just as
impressive.
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It inputs computer code that has been worked on by human programers for
years and in less than a day it outputs computer code that does the same
thing only much better. Programs improving programs and improving them a
lot in just a few hours.

 John K Clark
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