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by m777z 3182 days ago
6/28 is a very respectable finish, though I was surprised that the top 3 finishers were just individuals, not even teams.
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they're not learned ai, they're built in classical hard coded logic perfected through the years, with lots of domain specific knowledge from the users. that's a much easier way to produce something that does okay than to innovate with a new ai scheme, but importantly it also has no chance of ever beating a player who's at the professional level of play, let alone a top one