DeepMind researcher: AlphaZero fills a Go lookup table, but not one for cancer cures
syhw · x · 2026-10-10
- Google DeepMind researcher syhw responds to François Fleuret's LLM critique: a sufficiently large lookup table (as with AlphaZero) can beat the best humans at Go because "we know how to fill it up."
- But for open-world problems like room-temperature superconductivity or cancer, we don't know how to fill the table — he notes the real dispute is closed world vs open world.
Related event: LeCun and Lample Push Back on Fleuret's AlphaZero Challenge to LLM Skeptics(9 posts)→
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