where indeed they use machine learning to induce the rules of chess from a large number of played games (and then learn to play better than any human). It doesn't surprise me at all that this would be feasible with current tools, although I haven't studied the paper yet, and would be curious to know how many games you need before you've learned all the rules around, e.g., castling, en passant, promotion of pawns, and perpetual check.
My guess is that for a machine to learn the rules of the games of love and politics will take somewhat longer. :-)
Since you asked me, though, I did a quick Google search and found the following paper:
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1711.09667.pdf
where indeed they use machine learning to induce the rules of chess from a large number of played games (and then learn to play better than any human). It doesn't surprise me at all that this would be feasible with current tools, although I haven't studied the paper yet, and would be curious to know how many games you need before you've learned all the rules around, e.g., castling, en passant, promotion of pawns, and perpetual check.
My guess is that for a machine to learn the rules of the games of love and politics will take somewhat longer. :-)