What exactly is the innovation that is patented ? Using short look-ahead searches for tuning evaluation functions ( in this case a neural network ) is not exactly new.
On Thu, Dec 6, 2018 at 3:28 PM Rémi Coulom <remi.cou...@free.fr> wrote: > Hi, > > The new alphazero paper of DeepMind about chess and shogi has been > published in Science: > > > https://deepmind.com/blog/alphazero-shedding-new-light-grand-games-chess-shogi-and-go/ > > pdf: > https://deepmind.com/documents/260/alphazero_preprint.pdf > > I tried to play "spot the difference" with their previous draft, and did > not notice any very important difference. They include shogi games, which > might be appreciated by the shogi players. It seems they still don't tell > the value of their exploration coefficient, unless I missed anything. > > Also, the AlphaZero algorithm is patented: > https://patentscope2.wipo.int/search/en/detail.jsf?docId=WO2018215665 > > Rémi > _______________________________________________ > Computer-go mailing list > Computer-go@computer-go.org > http://computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go
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