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Dec 30

When Moore’s Law Killed Chess

How Strategy Games Redefined Intelligence in AI Originally published in Volume 15 №1 of Intersect: Stanford Journal of Science, Technology, and SocietyIntroductionOver one hundred years ago, scientists dreamed of a machine that could play a good game of chess. For centuries, chess was associated with intellectual ability and thus became a criterion for general intelligence in AI as the game “is generally considered to require ‘thinking’ for skillful play” (Shannon, 1950, p. 2; Esmenger, 2011,...

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A data scientist interested in the future of web3, virtual reality, and entrepreneurship

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