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Old 14-12-2017, 11:38 AM
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AlphGo extends to be chess and shogi master, starting from knowing just the rules

In a 5 Dec 2017 paper posted in arXiv, Silver et. al. report on recent work
in generalizing the AlphaGo algorithm and have demonstrated that it can
achieve :-

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Originally Posted by Silver et.al.
... tabula rasa, superhuman performance in many challenging domains.
Starting from random play, and given no domain knowledge except the
game rules, AlphaZero achieved within 24 hours a superhuman level of play
in the games of chess and shogi (Japanese chess) as well as Go, and
convincingly defeated a world-champion program in each case.
Paper here :-
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1712.01815.pdf
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