> Looking forward to the inevitable goalpost-moving of "that's not real reasoning".
It's less about the definition of "reasoning" and more about what's interesting.
Maybe I'm wrong here ... but a chess bot that wins via a 100% game solution stored in exabytes of precomputed data might have an interesting internal design (at least the precomputing part), but playing against it wouldn't keep on being an interesting experience for most people because it always wins optimally and there's no real-time reasoning going on (that is, unless you're interested in the experience of playing against a perfect player). But for most people just interested in playing chess, I suspect it would get old quickly.
Now ... if someone followed up with a tool that could explain insightfully why any given move (or series) the bot played is the best, or showed when two or more moves are equally optimal and why, that would be really interesting.
It's less about the definition of "reasoning" and more about what's interesting.
Maybe I'm wrong here ... but a chess bot that wins via a 100% game solution stored in exabytes of precomputed data might have an interesting internal design (at least the precomputing part), but playing against it wouldn't keep on being an interesting experience for most people because it always wins optimally and there's no real-time reasoning going on (that is, unless you're interested in the experience of playing against a perfect player). But for most people just interested in playing chess, I suspect it would get old quickly.
Now ... if someone followed up with a tool that could explain insightfully why any given move (or series) the bot played is the best, or showed when two or more moves are equally optimal and why, that would be really interesting.