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It's interesting that the challenge to beat the champion Arimaa player with a computer was also passed last December, though there doesn't seem to be any necessary relation, other than perhaps with increasing computer power. What does make the Arimaa challenge different is that there are papers about what insights went into the winning programs (and many others).This Paper describes the changes that went into the winning bot over the last year, and the proportion of the ~400 Elo points were gained from them (a couple at 80 a few at 35-25 and many small).

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Right. No way can this approach generate a path to FOOM. I'd quibble, though that it can't generate AGI. In fact I'd make the case that it already has in principle. AGI IMHO is the capability to take perceptual inputs of your surroundings and generate from just those inputs a model with valid predictive capability. As distinct from self-awareness and consciousness which are *different* than intelligence.

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