In this chapter, we introduced the amazing world of AlphaZero, the latest and greatest achievement of DeepMind as of December 2017. We showed you how to train an AlphaZero-like model for Connect 4, using the powerful Keras API with the TensorFlow backend, and how to test and possibly improve such a model. Then we froze the model and covered in detail how to build iOS and Android apps to use the model and play Connect 4 with the model-powered AI. It's not the exact AlphaZero model that can beat human Chess or GO champions yet, but we hope this chapter provides you with a solid foundation and motivates you to continue your work in replicating what AlphaZero did first and further expanding it to other problem domains. It'll take a lot of hard work, but will be totally worth it.
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