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> 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> 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 >
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