watching Alpha Zero play chess

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Mark Tarver

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Sep 11, 2021, 10:59:51 AM9/11/21
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Things being bit slack before the fireworks; I've been watching a youtube commentary on Alpha Zero playing Stockfish.  I like watching the games but dislike the guy's commentary because its obvious to me that he's really making some of it up.  He's trying to do his best to understand why Alphazero is doing X but really he does not know.   I'd be happier if he sometimes said 'I haven't a clue why Alpha Zero did this'.

I guess its inevitable and why we need some sort of didactic program attached to programs like Alpha Zero to explain what the heck is going on in terms explicable to mortals.  At the moment its rather in the realm of lets gaze into the pond and let our
imaginations wander.

Mark

Mark Tarver

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Oct 9, 2021, 9:31:25 PM10/9/21
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Still looking at these games.  The public demand for these games is significant and people enjoy watching it beat Stockfish - a conventional chess engine.

Alpha Zero is zany.  It's like Fischer or Tal on steroids.  I think we tend to see something of ourselves in the ways it plays.  Human style but superhuman in attainment.  

Mark  

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