I'm sorry to say that to you again, but you don't seem to grasp the fact that these algoriths are highly scalable. Once again: SIZE DOES NOT MATTER. If you make the game significantly bigger, you would most certaintly would make them further away than perfect play, but also even better than humans. With 100+ pieces on a 32x32 board and multiple moves/ turn no human ca even grasp tactical implications in 5-6 turns. But such an AI will have enough experience by shear mountains of trial and error, where it will always put itself in very favorable situations. Hardware was important in the sense that with '90s hardware ML would have been useful. Now that we have passed that barrier it is usefull anyway. More is better still, as reasonalbe training times may be produced the the deciding factor is that we have passed that threshhold :)!
@Joe Joyce
I'm sorry to say that to you again, but you don't seem to grasp the fact that these algoriths are highly scalable. Once again: SIZE DOES NOT MATTER. If you make the game significantly bigger, you would most certaintly would make them further away than perfect play, but also even better than humans. With 100+ pieces on a 32x32 board and multiple moves/ turn no human ca even grasp tactical implications in 5-6 turns. But such an AI will have enough experience by shear mountains of trial and error, where it will always put itself in very favorable situations. Hardware was important in the sense that with '90s hardware ML would have been useful. Now that we have passed that barrier it is usefull anyway. More is better still, as reasonalbe training times may be produced the the deciding factor is that we have passed that threshhold :)!