[soist]

AlphaZero did not create any experiences. AlphaZero was software written by people to play board games and that's all it ever did.

[rocqua]

Are you launching into a semantic argument about the word 'experience'? If so, it might help to state what essential properties alphago was missing that makes it 'not having an experience'.

Otherwise this can quickly devolve into the common useless semantic discussion.

[soist]

Just making sure no one is confused by common computationalist sophistry and how they attribute personal characteristics to computers and software. People can have and can create experiences, computers can only execute their programmed instructions.

[visarga]

AZ trained in self-play mode for millions of games, over multiple generations of a player pool.

[soist]

I am familiar with the literature on reinforcement learning.