Stockfish doesn't need improvement at playing with odds to beat all humans with odds.
The author is playing a 2-year old version (stockfish 14 vs 16 is current) on low depth (22 vs for the strength they use to get max rating I think they use at least 48 or so, which is clearly much stronger). If they played stockfish 16 on a decent depth it would be an annhilation I'm sure.
To understand the depth number, this is how deep in the move tree the model looks forward in order to evaluate positions. I think depth 22 corresponds to 22 ply ie 11 moves by each player. At each depth it might evaluate 8-10 candidate moves or so, so a depth of 48 is clearly vastly stronger, not just "a bit more than twice as strong" which it might sound like.
I'm a very average chess player, and there are moves I play that stockfish at depth 16 things are a blunder that at depth 32 it thinks are a brilliancy. These are typically things in openings I play a lot where I've had a chance to do some homework and learn the best moves on a high depth.
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Stockfish doesn't need improvement at playing with odds to beat all humans with odds.
The author is playing a 2-year old version (stockfish 14 vs 16 is current) on low depth (22 vs for the strength they use to get max rating I think they use at least 48 or so, which is clearly much stronger). If they played stockfish 16 on a decent depth it would be an annhilation I'm sure.
To understand the depth number, this is how deep in the move tree the model looks forward in order to evaluate positions. I think depth 22 corresponds to 22 ply ie 11 moves by each player. At each depth it might evaluate 8-10 candidate moves or so, so a depth of 48 is clearly vastly stronger, not just "a bit more than twice as strong" which it might sound like.
I'm a very average chess player, and there are moves I play that stockfish at depth 16 things are a blunder that at depth 32 it thinks are a brilliancy. These are typically things in openings I play a lot where I've had a chance to do some homework and learn the best moves on a high depth.