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by freakynit·17d ago·view on hn ↗
And AlphaGo Zero .. probably the first real-world deployment of a self-improving system that beat humans.
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> probably the first real-world deployment of a self-improving system that beat humans.

Isn't that Checkers right from the dawn of reinforcement learning?

I think that credit might go to IBM:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TD-Gammon

It was a huge advancement but it did not beat the world champion. AlphaGo is noted for being a self-learning system that became better than all humans. Chess engines had long been there but were not self-learning before AlphaZero.