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0 pointsanonymouskimmer3y ago0 comments

I don't see that this follows. It doesn't seem materially different than knowing that U always follows Q, and that J is always followed by a vowel in "legal" English language words.

https://content.wolfram.com/uploads/sites/43/2023/02/sw02142... from https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/02/what-is-chatgpt-...

I imagine it's technically possible to do this in a piecewise manner that doesn't "understand" the larger board. This could theoretically be done with number lines, and not a geometry (i.e. the 8x8 grid and current state of each square mentioned in the comment you replied to). It could also be done in a piecewise manner with three ternary numbers (e.g. 1,0,-1) for each 3 square sets.

I guess this is a kind of geometric representation on the order of Shannon's Theseus.

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nottathrowaway33y ago

> It doesn't seem materially different than knowing that U always follows Q, and that J is always followed by a vowel in "legal" English language words.

The material difference is one of scale, not complexity.

Your rules have lookback = 1, while the Othello rules have lookback <= 63 and if you, say, are trying to play A1, you need to determine the current color of all squares on A1-A8, A1-H1, and A1-H8 (which is lookback <= 62) and then determine if one of 21 specific patterns exists.

Both can be technically be modeled with a lookup table, but for Othello that table would be size 3^63.

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