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Comment by neuroticnews25

>A chess engine can be dropped into a board position it has never encounterd and search over possible continuations, evaluating and selecting actions based on the state it finds itself in.

Sounds pretty similar to a calculator with a numerical root-finding algorithm, if you only substitute board position it has never encounterd with a polynomial it has never encountered.

>The core of being intelligent is being able to make decisions independently

What does it mean for a deterministic algorithm to make decisions?

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