I think a deep neural network trained from self play has a subjective, and even 
inscrutable inner representation.  Imagine such techniques were applied to 
public policy decisions or medical diagnosis.   Without a linguistic component 
that co-evolved to describe a taken action, one could be left with robot 
savants that outperformed humans on crucial tasks and no one, including the 
robot, would have any idea why.

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> On Mar 13, 2016, at 8:01 AM, Roger Critchlow <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I've been watching parts of the match between Lee Sedol and Alpha Go on the 
> youtube deepmind channel.  It's quite good, they start off with a discussion 
> of the previous game, give running commentary during the game, and audibly 
> gasp when the progress of the game shocks them.  The post match press 
> conferences are not to be missed, either.  It's a completely trump free zone.
> 
> But you're looking at a full day's work for each game, 6 hours and 17 minutes 
> of video from last night's game which Lee Sedol won.  I was too tired to stay 
> up and watch so I tuned into youtube this morning and watched the endgame.
> 
> Apparently I forwarded past the key move, #78, which a Chinese journalist, 
> quoting a Chinese commentator, called "a God's move".  Lee Sedol replied that 
> it was the only move he had at the time, that he had thought it would be 
> easier to make some profit, but it was quite difficult.
> 
> So the same play is described as both creative genius and inevitable in the 
> space of a few sentences.  Glad to know that some things will never change.
> 
> -- rec --
> 
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