From AlphaZero to open problems: search-and-verify AI defies expectations
Grady_Booch · x · 2026-11-02
ChombaBupe argues that since AlphaZero reached superhuman play at Go and chess with zero human data, similar AI breakthroughs should follow wherever a problem is well-defined and solutions can be verified quickly, enabling probabilistically guided search over the solution space. A replier says recent results touching millennium-problem territory shocked them, being far outside the expected distribution.
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