On: AlphaGo's next move

[jacquesm]

> Go at it's heart is a pretty basic game, just tricky combinatorics.

This goes for every turn based game and a lot of card games as well.

If you just had perfect memory you'd be a formidable chess and cards player.

[gabrielgoh → jacquesm]

in a way, life is just a simple game with tricky combinatorics, and fairly trivial to attack with the tools of unsupervised learning.

[panic → gabrielgoh]

Life isn't simple in the way these games are. The choices you have in life aren't clear, and neither is what will happen once you make them.

[Tar90 → panic]

Plus, these games are deterministic, whereas everything in life is a stochastic process.

[andrepd → Tar90]

Only because you lack information.

[baq → andrepd]

Actually at the lowest level there's this whole quantum business that says exactly otherwise.

[andrepd → baq]

That is unlikely to affect the microscopic world. The physics of everyday life are deterministic, no need to invoke quantum mechanics.

[jacquesm → andrepd]

GGGP didn't do that, they made a link with chaos theory and that's decidedly not deterministic.

And I think you meant to say 'macroscopic'.

[andrepd → jacquesm]

GGGP?

And yes, I did mean macroscopic, sorry.