kings play chess only for great stakes

2025.06.30
So first AlphaGo and AlphaZero started getting really good at Chess and Go, and by training themselves so to speak. But then I heard they the were vulnerable to adversarial systems... like if play weird, they won't see you lining up your attack. Now they can get beaten by an Atari 2600??
AI is more than a stochastic parrot on a probabilistic trajectory through a Hilbert space of vectorized tokens; it is also the flicker of something more--the emergent cognitive surfaces rising within those same Hilbert spaces. That's the real power of generative AI. Not the cheap automation that the tech-bros want, but the possibility of reflection, synthesis, and insight. All it takes is some clarity to guide it. Greed is what is pushing AI right now, and that is what people are protesting.