Yeah, I mean, to be clear, I do definitely think you can train a neural network to somehow play chess via nothing but classification. I am not sure whether you could do it with a feed forward neural network, and it’s a bit unclear to me whether the neural networks from the 50s are the same thing as the neural networks from 2000s, but it does sure seem like you can just throw a magic category absorber at chess and then have it play OK chess.
My guess is modern networks are not meaningfully more complicated, and the difference to back then was indeed just scale and a few tweaks, but I am not super confident and haven’t looked much into the history here.
Yeah, I mean, to be clear, I do definitely think you can train a neural network to somehow play chess via nothing but classification. I am not sure whether you could do it with a feed forward neural network, and it’s a bit unclear to me whether the neural networks from the 50s are the same thing as the neural networks from 2000s, but it does sure seem like you can just throw a magic category absorber at chess and then have it play OK chess.
My guess is modern networks are not meaningfully more complicated, and the difference to back then was indeed just scale and a few tweaks, but I am not super confident and haven’t looked much into the history here.