Consideration of the Effectiveness of AI in Shogi, Mahjong, and Real Society, and the Issues of Efficiency and Embodiment
Keiichi Hori · PhilPapers (PhilPapers Foundation)
This paper considers the characteristics of AI based on its strength in Shogi, and further examines the efficiency and embodiment of AI. The strength of AI in Shogi stems from the rules of Shogi, which is a perfect information game with clear preconditions. This is the reason why the effectiveness of AI in Mahjong and real society cannot be as high as in Shogi. Furthermore, it is easy to assume scenarios where AI operates with more effort than necessary, and in such scenarios, efficiency is remarkably low. This stems from the fact that feedback to the AI's embodiment is not sophisticated, and the cause can be said to be statistics, which is the core of its design. As long as AI resources are not inexhaustible, this is a clear weakness.