The most surprising fact, to me, is that it's possible to apply "reinforce" on such a large scale. Reinforce is not new, but even with millions of cores I did not expect this to be possible. I would have assumed that reinforce would just produce random noise when applied at such a scale :-)
On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 9:29 PM, Petr Baudis <pa...@ucw.cz> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 07:20:11PM +0000, Josef Moudrik wrote: > > Yes, but they are not some random cherry picking third party; have a look > > on the top authors of the paper - David Silver, Aja Huang, Chris > Maddison.. > > Also, they aren't merely wrapping engineering around existing science > and putting existing things together, but invented several new methods > too. So, of course they are standing on the shoulders of giants, and > the massive computational resources of Google had been a lot of help, > but I'd say there is a fair amount of originality in the AlphaGo > research, scientifically. > > Petr Baudis > _______________________________________________ > Computer-go mailing list > Computer-go@computer-go.org > http://computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go > -- ========================================================= Olivier Teytaud, olivier.teyt...@inria.fr, TAO, LRI, UMR 8623(CNRS - Univ. Paris-Sud), bat 490 Univ. Paris-Sud F-91405 Orsay Cedex France http://www.slideshare.net/teytaud
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