The new approach involves the use of use of synthetic data and very complicated agaritms, including some they called reinforcement learning. Like alphago, the system not only learned the rules of the game themselves, but learned how to win at the game. And if there are things that the computer understands that humans will never understand, is that a parallel world, or is that just a different kind of intelligence? These are questions for philosophers about how does life work,. How does reality work, and how does meaning work? But the fact that these things are producing discoveries that humans could not have conceived of is a big deal.

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