[sjg007]

You can view these as optimized pattern recognizer regexes. You start with a blank fully connected graph and it eventually converge on a useful function. That graph has many paths encoded in it that represents specific optimal game play.

[vegarab]

Isn't this how the neurons and synapses in our brain work, though?

[sjg007]

Maybe... there’s some other properties of biological neurons we don’t capture in NNs currently.