How Games Can Teach Bots – Archie.AI – Medium

A Go player attains excellence through endless practice. A baby learns to avoid touching hot stoves by feeling, rather than by listening to adults. Both the baby and the Go player learn through experience, rather than rules. Determining the correct rules for any concrete task is often near-impossible due to the huge number of possibilities that exist in real life. That means that this type of approach often falls short. Therefore, throughout most of AI history, researchers have searched for ways to mimic the learning that occurs through trial-and-error.