To go back to the chess example, as chess isn’t a solved game, it’s impossible to always determine the most optimal move in chess. Computers can do lots of complex math to calculate what it thinks is most optimal, but it can never be known for certain.
ThunderChaser t1_j9fk8qw wrote
Reply to comment by AquaRegia in ELI5: How do you make a computer “dumber?” by [deleted]
Yep.
To go back to the chess example, as chess isn’t a solved game, it’s impossible to always determine the most optimal move in chess. Computers can do lots of complex math to calculate what it thinks is most optimal, but it can never be known for certain.