Did they hard-code the rules of backgammon into the software, or only the board state? I think there's a sort of conceptual ladder
visual input --> game state --> games rules --> game strategy
and it's very important to specify which rungs the software started on.
Just the position of the pieces on the board. They did give it some other features to help it. I forget what they were though, but just simple stuff that was calculated directly from the board state.
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Did they hard-code the rules of backgammon into the software, or only the board state? I think there's a sort of conceptual ladder visual input --> game state --> games rules --> game strategy and it's very important to specify which rungs the software started on.
Just the position of the pieces on the board. They did give it some other features to help it. I forget what they were though, but just simple stuff that was calculated directly from the board state.
From what I've read, DeepMind's approach is to just feed in the raw pixel data and the score. No rules, or anything like that.