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Comment author: gwern 14 November 2011 02:58:49PM 7 points [-]

Why haven’t we seen a learning algorithm teaching itself chess intelligence starting with nothing but the rules?

AIXI-MC can teach itself Pacman; Pacman by default is single-player so the game implementation has to be already done for AIXI-MC. I suppose you could set up a pair of AIXI-MCs like is sometimes done for training chess programs, and the two will gradually teach each other chess.

Comment author: magfrump 15 November 2011 08:18:42AM 1 point [-]

Does anyone here actually have the ability to implement this? Has this been done? Googling "AIXI Chess" doesn't turn up interesting results. This seems like a great experiment for a grad student or maybe even an undergrad.