The answer
No. The original system used expert games in supervised training. The later AlphaGo Zero system removed that dependency and learned from self-play instead.
How did AlphaGo use supervised learning and reinforcement learning?
Did the original AlphaGo learn entirely without human examples?
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It assigned probabilities to possible moves from a board position. That guidance helped the system focus its search on moves considered more promising.
Move selection and position evaluation are different tasks. A value estimate helps assess how favorable a position is without fully exploring every possible continuation.
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