Eli5: How are computers better at video games?

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I was watching a chess video and Deep Blue, the IBM computer, was able to beat the best Chess player in the world at the time. If we made the computer and it bases its moves off of moves already made in real life shouldn’t we be able to beat computers like any other player? This isn’t chess specific but can be for any multitude of games.

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I never fully appreciated how fast computers really were until I started programming. I wrote a simple script to count to 100 on a terrible laptop and it was lightning fast. Now imagine doing that on a powerful GPU. Based on that alone humans wouldn’t stand a chance. AI learns much the same way we do by trial and error but it does it at incredible speeds. The computer also only cares about results and not about how it’s typically done. That’s why many AI bots will find ways to break a game that no one else has.

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