Chapter 3 – Machine Intelligence – Evaluation Functions and Numerical Convergence
- Can a human beat a chess engine? (Yes | No)
The answer is no. Today, the highest-level chess tournaments are not between humans but between chess engines. Each chess engine software editor prepares for these competitions by making their algorithms faster and requiring less CPU. Today, a top chess engine running on a smartphone can beat humans. In human-to-human chess competitions, the level of chess has reached very high limits of complexity. Humans now mostly train against machines.
- Humans can estimate decisions better than machines with intuition when it comes to large volumes of data. (Yes | No)
The answer is no. The sheer CPU power of an average machine or even a smartphone can generate better results than humans with the proper algorithms.
- Building a reinforcement learning program with a Q function is a feat in itself...
