Of course, not an LLM. I was just referring to AI technology in general. And that goal functions can be complicated and not-obvious even for a game world with known rules and outcomes.
I was miss-remembering the order of how things happened.
AlphaZero, another iteration after the famous matches, was trained without human data.
"AlphaGo's team published an article in the journal Nature on 19 October 2017, introducing AlphaGo Zero, a version without human data and stronger than any previous human-champion-defeating version.[52] By playing games against itself, AlphaGo Zero surpassed the strength of AlphaGo Lee in three days by winning 100 games to 0, reached the level of AlphaGo Master in 21 days, and exceeded all the old versions in 40 days.[53]"
I was miss-remembering the order of how things happened.
AlphaZero, another iteration after the famous matches, was trained without human data.
"AlphaGo's team published an article in the journal Nature on 19 October 2017, introducing AlphaGo Zero, a version without human data and stronger than any previous human-champion-defeating version.[52] By playing games against itself, AlphaGo Zero surpassed the strength of AlphaGo Lee in three days by winning 100 games to 0, reached the level of AlphaGo Master in 21 days, and exceeded all the old versions in 40 days.[53]"