At this point I don't doubt that the single machine version is
professional strength which is enough to be used as a tool to analyze
games...
On 2016-03-12 16:24, Lukas van de Wiel wrote:
This would be many thousands of dollars per day. A single game would
be more than a thousand dollars in total costs.
I do not think a kickstarter project or so would be successful, as the
go community is simply not *that* big...
On Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 1:17 PM, Gonçalo Mendes Ferreira
<go...@sapo.pt <mailto:go...@sapo.pt>> wrote:
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
<mailto: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 <mailto:cbwie...@gmail.com>>
>>> wrote:
>>> On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 5:05 PM, Thomas Wolf
<tw...@brocku.ca <mailto: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
>>>
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