Imagine a movie that has an infinite amount of different starts and ends.
I'd still get tired of it, same way I get tired of other board games and also plenty of video games. Theres no more sense of excitement or wonder.
Different brains, different interests.
chess doesn't have an infinite set though, that's what IBM's "deep blue" was doing: it calculated the entire tree of all possible games and chose the winning paths
I know, but to the average human mind, it sure does look like infinite.
Maybe the endgame is like that, but for chess at least.. I know the good players kinda memorize all the openers and "counters" to those starts.
Bullshit. Deep blue lost 2 of 6 games in the kasporov (who is not the world's greatest chess player) rematch and 3 of 6 games in their initial series.
The possible combinations are near infinite and the AI must assign a point value to each move and run through 20-30 move combinations, depending on the time given for each move, and then selects the best move based on the points system it uses. Human players can, and often do, come up with unpredicted moves which then throw the AI off making what were high scoring moves before the human's unpredictable moves into blunders that ultimately lose the game.
Even today's best AI computers still often succumb to the creativity of the world's best chess players.
"near infinite"
the set of all possible chess games is most definitely finite, and computable. never said deep blue was unbeatable, just what it's strategy was -- it's entirely possible to be driven into a region of the tree having no winning results
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