chess

“Eventually I'd imagine that these systems become so strong that, like, it kind of goes the way of chess, where, like, the human's just kind of, like, adding a marginal difference at the end.”

“I kind of describe poker as essentially high dimensional chess. It's chess. It's like chess where you have to reason about like a probability distribution over actions instead of just like discrete actions.”

“Like we also found in chess and go, we actually ran this experiment. If you do. Just pure supervised learning on a giant data set of human chess and go games. The bot that you get out from that is not an expert chess or go player. Even if it's like conditioned…”

“And I should also say like the way professional poker players train now, They all use bots to assist them. It's a lot like chess where you play the game and then you have a bot analyze your play at the afterwards and see like, okay, did you make mistakes? Wher…”

“Fundamentally humans want to do human stuff. That's, you know, humans competing against other humans. It's humans making things. It's human solving problems. And there's certain areas where, you know, machines have gotten better than humans at things, but it r…”

“The interesting thing is chess is like, Not patentable. There's, you know, thousands, if not tens of thousands of chess apps in the app store and chess websites. And you know, at the end of the day, really product is going to win out and community and content.”

“Computers at first made chess a little bit more boring, but then made it so much more exciting. And we're seeing more exciting chess than we ever have. And the players have gotten better and really computers are now able to help us unlock the game in ways that…”

“When there's infinite music, sometimes people go back to like the Beatles and Led Zeppelin because it's like the classics that everyone can kind of rally around and have a shared experience. And I think that's the same about chess is like, You know, there's no…”