mastering

Definition

Reaching or exceeding top human performance in a domain, used most often for games where the claim can be settled by match results rather than argued. Titles of the form "Mastering the game of X" belong to the reinforcement-learning line that culminated in systems learning from self-play alone. The word describes competence in one narrowly defined task, which is exactly why games could support it.

Explainers using this term

• Self-Improving AI — Self-Play, Co-Evolution, and Generated CurriculaMastering Chess and Shogi by Self-Play with a General Reinforcement Learning Algorithm
• AlphaGo from Scratch — The Marriage of Search and LearningMastering the game of Go with deep neural networks and tree search (Silver et al.