It does seem unlikely for DeepMind not to move on to "bigger" things, but maybe the Go community can make some kind of fundraiser to keep an instance of AlphaGo playing 24/7? I think there are some websites for this kind of thing. Someone would be in charge of scheduling time for it to play pros, other programs, and maybe play online on breaks. Just an idea, oh Google overlords that watch all communications.
Gonçalo On 13/03/2016 00:06, Lukas van de Wiel wrote: > 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
