Yes, technically. But the broader point is true. Go is a game with well-defined win and loss conditions that can be automatically evaluated.
This is critical for game-clock-eons of unsupervised self-play, which by most accounts is how AlphaGo (and other systems like AlphaZero) made the leap to superhuman levels of play.
But it is entirely different from subjective endeavors like writing, music, and art. How do you score one automatically generated composition vs another? Where is the loss function?
Stipulating up front that this is a question for a lead scientist at OpenAI: I could see a scoring function looking at essays in the New York Times vs. the National Enquirer and finding a way to generalize from there. Similarly for the top 40 hit songs vs <everything else>.
This is critical for game-clock-eons of unsupervised self-play, which by most accounts is how AlphaGo (and other systems like AlphaZero) made the leap to superhuman levels of play.
But it is entirely different from subjective endeavors like writing, music, and art. How do you score one automatically generated composition vs another? Where is the loss function?