Using a computer to learn Chess or Go is like using a calculator to help you learn arithmetic. You can check your answers, but you can’t directly see if your underlying algorithm for generating the answers is any good—it’s like a textbook that has the answers but not the solutions to problems in the back of the book.
Using a computer to learn Chess or Go is like using a calculator to help you learn arithmetic. You can check your answers, but you can’t directly see if your underlying algorithm for generating the answers is any good—it’s like a textbook that has the answers but not the solutions to problems in the back of the book.