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Re:Firefighters forced to smash window of driverless Cruise ... by prometheus76 on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @09:21AM (#34595293)
Chess is a perfect information game. Both opponents can see the entire board at all times. Reality, nor even driving, is not anywhere close to that. Weather, time of day, climate, seasonality, and other drivers throw constant and voluminous amounts of unpredictability into the mix.
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Re:Firefighters forced to smash window of driverless Cruise ... by Tv9m on Thursday February 09, 2023 @04:13PM (#34731561)
> Reality, nor even driving, is not anywhere close to that.

This reminds me of the kinds of intuitions people had about Chess and Go. In retrospect they seem silly, but it made plenty of sense to them at the time. The fact was that there was a solution that machines could use that humans couldn't use. Naturally, a solution that humans couldn't use was hard for them to anticipate being effective.

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