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On self-driving, Waymo is playing chess while Tesla plays checkers (arstechnica.com)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Maybe they should compare playing chess with playing Go.

The number of legal board positions in Go has been calculated to be approximately 2.1×10^170, which is far greater than the number of atoms in the observable universe, which is estimated to be on the order of 10^80.