Artificial Intelligence / Unit 1 AI 0026 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Chess-World Fallacy
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The idea
Treating fully observable, game-like worlds as the normal case is a fallacy — almost every environment worth acting in hides most of its state most of the time.
In practice
Markets, roads, hospitals, conversations: fog everywhere, and the field's early optimism was partly methods honed in miniatures meeting it.
Where people slip
Ask early, of any demonstration: could the system see everything?
Your place on the trail
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