Actually, I opened the paper this morning (because of the sensational headline on slashdot), and I do not find it very interesting; the author only uses nn to train the evaluation function (then uses search tree) and there seems to be nothing new about this at all...
Josef Dne út 15. 9. 2015 5:15 uživatel Gonçalo Mendes Ferreira <[email protected]> napsal: > I've heard about that. Maybe it's because of AMAF statistics being less > useful in chess? I know nothing of chess AI beyond minimax pruning. > > On 09/15/2015 04:10 AM, Igor Polyakov wrote: > > afaik monte carlo approaches in chess achieved less than 1000 FIDE level > > > > On 2015-09-14 20:09, Gonçalo Mendes Ferreira wrote: > >> I haven't opened the links but my immediate 2 cents are: > >> 1. chess master level is not impressive for a chess engine > >> 2. trained ANN have diminishing returns of their error curves, so > >> saying it "only" took three days is not a good indicator of anything > >> 3. from the domain name and bold claims I suppose it must be a > >> sensationalist news website > >> > >> Gonçalo F. > >> > >> On 09/15/2015 01:58 AM, Ray Tayek wrote: > >>> > http://games.slashdot.org/story/15/09/14/2122229/neural-network-chess-computer-abandons-brute-force-for-human-approach > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> Posted by samzenpus <mailto:[email protected]> on Monday > September > >>> 14, 2015 @06:53PM from the > >>> how-about-a-nice-game-of-global-thermonuclear-war dept. > >>> > >>> An anonymous reader writes: /A new chess AI utilizes a neural network > to > >>> approach the millions of possible moves in the game without just > >>> throwing compute cycles <http://arxiv.org/abs/1509.01549> at the > problem > >>> the way that most chess engines have done since Von Neumann. 'Giraffe' > >>> returns to the practical problems which defeated chess researchers who > >>> tried to create less 'systematic' opponents in the mid-1990s, and came > >>> up against the (still present) issues of latency and branch resolution > >>> in search. Invented by an MSc student at Imperial College London, > >>> Giraffe taught itself chess and reached FIDE International Master level > >>> < > https://thestack.com/iot/2015/09/14/neural-network-chess-computer-abandons-brute-force-for-selective-human-approach/ > > > >>> > >>> on a modern mainstream PC within three days./ > _______________________________________________ > Computer-go mailing list > [email protected] > http://computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go
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