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Comment by smokel

6 hours ago

I think that credit might go to IBM:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TD-Gammon

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jeremyjh  1 hour ago

It was a huge advancement but it did not beat the world champion. AlphaGo is noted for being a self-learning system that became better than all humans. Chess engines had long been there but were not self-learning before AlphaZero.

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