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Appreciation post: my uncle told me in 2019 that AI would never beat a human at Go, and I argued with him for 20 minutes
He said the board was too big and the game had too many moves for any machine to figure out, and I brought up DeepMind and we went back and forth at a cookout in Tacoma. Turns out he was wrong, but here's the part I keep chewing on: the AI didn't win by thinking like a person, it won by finding moves no human would ever pick, and some of those moves are now teaching tools for pros. So which side do you land on, does that count as the machine learning the game or does it just mean the game has more in it than we understood?
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irisross10d ago
Watched a buddy go through this exact thing with his dad over chess. His old man swore up and down that no computer could ever outplay a grandmaster because chess needs gut feeling and nerve, then we all sat there while Stockfish just dismantled everything. The wild part came later when my buddy showed him games where the engine picked moves that made zero sense to him at first, like sacrificing a piece for no clear reason, and two years later people were copying those lines. So yeah, I'd say it found stuff in the game we never saw, but that still means the machine learned it, just not the way we do.
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