Oh, I did not say that it would not be beneficial, to AlphaGo, and to the people playing it, and to the Go community as a whole, but still, it will have to come from somewhere. Just the electricity bill alone would be hair-raising. And the big-scale benefits in prestige and marketing are over, with this victory.
It would be cool to build on the works of AlphaGo, and I would like to see it as much as the next enthusiast, but I doubt the feasibility... On Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 1:01 PM, Thomas Wolf <tw...@brocku.ca> wrote: > > > On Sat, 12 Mar 2016, Lukas van de Wiel wrote: > > And the hardware available for this tournament was tremendous. It remains >> to be seen whether the hardware and the people >> maintaining it would be available for a longer period. The costs of this >> are not to be underestimated. Who would pay it? >> > > The AlphaGo team would get feedback from testing by players with very > different ideas/strengths who they would otherwise never get in contact > with. > > For example, Michael Redmond mentioned repeatedly in the last 3 reviews > that > he would love to play AlphaGo to study Go, to find new openings,... > > > >> Lukas >> >> On Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 12:20 PM, Clark B. Wierda <cbwie...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 5:05 PM, Thomas Wolf <tw...@brocku.ca> >> wrote: >> Having AlphaGo playing exclusively on KGS would be such a >> boost to KGS! >> >> For sure. >> >> The other Go servers might have their own opinion on that. >> >> Clark >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Computer-go mailing list >> Computer-go@computer-go.org >> http://computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go >> >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Computer-go mailing list > Computer-go@computer-go.org > http://computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go >
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