On: Show HN: GoFormer – Language Model That Plays Go

[xpasky]

Interesting idea! So... how strong is it, compared to some benchmarks? :-)

Given LLM performance on chess, I find it conceivable it could get to a similar level to GNUGo? (It'd be interesting if LLMs were generally on par with simple alpha-beta.)

(https://www.kayufu.com/gogui/reference-twogtp.html is an easy way to test it systematically on a statistical sample.)

[kenhktsui → xpasky]

Thanks for links. Let me set up a battle between GNUGo and GoFormer. I was also inspired by how well it played chess, so I am trying to train one to challenge Go. It is still an early version as I am still enhancing the model with more data. But it already exhibited reasonable move as I played with it.