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by sapiogram 974 days ago
> Naively we might see games like Go, Chess, StarCraft, and Dota as more "complex"

The strong AIs made for those games had access to some crucial human "help" though.

* AlphaStar (For StarCraft) was trained on a massive database of human games, while this project started Pokemon Red with a blank slate.

* AlphaZero and AlphaZero Chess did start blank slate, but had a hand-coded and domain-specific search algorithm (MCTS) to explore various actions (800 iterations IIRC) before actually making that action. There's no obvious way to do something similar for Pokemon Red.