Introducing Maia, a human-like neural network chess engine

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I don't know whether the bot is trying to prove a point, as everybody say it's playing too quickly, or if it's just simulating a human heart attack mid-game, but yesterday I had a game where maia9 timed out after taking more than 5 minutes to play a move:

Why is Bxa6 better?

Caro-kann caveman variation

@CarefreeWatermelon, Of course, is easily recognizable that this bot is a bot ......... you must be kidding me. On the other hand, you can't pass part of the Turing Test; or you pass it or you don't. By definition, this test, originally called the imitation game by Alan Turing in 1950, is a test of a machine's ability to exhibit intelligent behavior equivalent to, or indistinguishable from, that of a human. This bot is far, far away from that point .... I'm afraid. You can code whatever you want, but it's still some lines of coding.

@jrepo the bot left the game? That's the funniest thing I've ever heard 😂😂😂 Love it ❤️

@K466_D_minor As of now, it still differ from human like moves, but it's an improvement on previous generation of AI in that regard. Furthemore, you missed my point. I'm not talking about the Turing test, i'm talking about an analog in chess of such a test. That would be an AI capable of playing like a human. Of course even if it succeeds, it's a thousand light years away from an AI who could pass an actual Turing test, but that wasn't my point.

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I thought deep learning meant exactly going beyond "precoding." I.e. everything AI does is NOT just what a human programmer has coded and/or anticipated, instead the AI learns to learn, and teaches itself. But if someone can enlighten me I'm glad to learn.

@ProposeBurgers You're right. That's what exactly deep learning means. But, who said that this bot is teaching itself? The main algorithm of this bot tries to find out the best move mixing a database of human-played games with the chess software typical sequence of deep analysis. As a direct consequence, this bot shows itself more likely to commit some mistakes or some typical human movements, but it's still, and always will be, a bot. Please, don't misunderstand me. With any shadow of a doubt, it's a great job but still coded.

@K466_D_minor On Maia's webpage they say: "Maia is an AlphaZero/Leela-like deep learning framework that learns from online human games instead of self-play." But then they have Maia-bots with different rating levels. I'm confused :(