On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 09:25:53AM +0200, "Ingo Althöfer" wrote:
> I have a question (maybe to Aja):
>
> Concerning the TPU hardware used in AlphaGo, how long will it take
> until that system (all together, including Go software) will be
> available for 20,000 Euro or less?
I don't have an answer, but want to note that the main power of TPU is
at training time. Unless a breakthrough happenned after the AlphaGo
paper in this regard as well, when using the TPUs during actual
gameplay, you probably quickly hit diminishing returns and you'd be just
as fine with using a bunch of GPUs.
--
Petr Baudis
If you have good ideas, good data and fast computers,
you can do almost anything. -- Geoffrey Hinton
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