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Prediction is literally what's allowed computers to make amazingly creative chess and go moves that a human would never have thought of.

More generally prediction allows you to path find towards a solution to reach some goal that no human might ever see.

If someone states "LLMs can't have new ideas because they only predict" you have to laugh. Prediction literally enables new ideas as you use those predictions to path find to a goal.



Being able to read out positions (minimax, alpha-beta pruning etc.) is not "prediction".


Tree pruning needs prediction to work and is merely part of the search of predicted spaces.

The prediction is in the state evaluator that predicts how much closer to victory any position is.

Chess and go absolutely have predictions being made by their value nets.




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