AlphaGo variant reaches superhuman play in multiple games

Link post

https://​​www.theguardian.com/​​technology/​​2017/​​dec/​​07/​​alphazero-google-deepmind-ai-beats-champion-program-teaching-itself-to-play-four-hours

https://​​arxiv.org/​​abs/​​1712.01815

I’m posting this slightly late; the paper is from December 5.

I’d be interested to learn if AlphaZero could be applied to other closed-environment tasks, such as designing hardware in a simulator.