It's one thing to know the recipe; it's another to have an industrial-size kitchen. Google was able to throw truly gargantuan amounts of computing resources at this problem.
A few years back, a researcher - was it Remi Coulon? - was able to scrounge a few thousand cores for a tournament. Google designed an ASIC specifically for the task of accelerating their neural networks, and made thousands of them available for massive tests and training. Terry McIntyre <[email protected]> Unix/Linux Systems Administration Taking time to do it right saves having to do it twice.tr On Thursday, January 5, 2017 9:01 AM, Stefan Kaitschick <[email protected]> wrote: Honestly I got a little frustrated that many people didn't think that was AlphaGo. It was almost clear to me because I know the difficulty of developing AlphaGo-like bots. I feel with you. People seem to think that the Nature paper gave away the full recipe. _______________________________________________ Computer-go mailing list [email protected] http://computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go
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