Interesting, nuanced discussion of Leela Chess Zero (a neural net) beating Stockfish in a recent competition: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20027838
Whilst the original DeepMind result was impressive, it's great to see reproducible results and a project that's available to the public.
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DeepMind building an effective StarCraft AI, and why it's a hard game for a computer to play: https://deepmind.com/blog/alphastar-mastering-real-time-strategy-game-starcraft-ii/
(When you build an AI using a ton of self-play, it's pretty likely that you end up finding some novel strategies too!)
