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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Chess computers can look at a lot more possibilities than even the best humans can imagine. The rules of chess are fairly simple, so those go into the computer and it can plan out millions of progressions of the game, choosing the one with the best outcome. A chess grandmaster may have memorized multiple games, but there are still permutations where they have to get creative, and on a statistical scale they won’t do that as well as AI.

In cases like RTS games, even if the AI is equally as good as a person, they have no input lag from having to move a mouse and hit keys. They can have ridiculous APM (actions per minute) and essentially see the game with the human player going in slow-motion. Granted a lot of game AI are still too dumb to compete with humans also in more complex games, but we’re getting there.

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