I am an avid chess player, and was curious to read this paper as someone referred me to it. I think the claims from the paper and article are misguided, since the premise is that Leela is a superhuman chess AI, but that has actually not been proven at the level of search nodes used in the paper (referring to Appendix section B.3). It's quite possible that Leela is not a superhuman level AI even at 1600 nodes searched - the upper limit referenced in the paper; at 1 node, which is also referenced in the tables in the paper, I believe Leela has been estimated at around expert-level strength - well... (read 479 more words →)
I am an avid chess player, and was curious to read this paper as someone referred me to it. I think the claims from the paper and article are misguided, since the premise is that Leela is a superhuman chess AI, but that has actually not been proven at the level of search nodes used in the paper (referring to Appendix section B.3). It's quite possible that Leela is not a superhuman level AI even at 1600 nodes searched - the upper limit referenced in the paper; at 1 node, which is also referenced in the tables in the paper, I believe Leela has been estimated at around expert-level strength - well... (read 479 more words →)