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Very impressive result from DeepMind team
Posted By: Maik Stiebler In Response To: Very impressive result from DeepMind team (Michael)
Date: Tuesday, 12 December 2017, at 9:56 p.m.
There are many inaccuracies in the reports of the news. Here is what I believe:
they They are a very resourceful team of researchers having focused for three years on deep learning in game playing, first specializing on Go, then generalizing.
just gave That "just giving" is certainly a thing that took them more than 4 human hours to figure out. It's more like they encoded the rules into a form suitable for their generalized game learning and playing framework.
it "It" is not a random piece of silicon, but a specialized super computer running specialized software as hinted at above.
the rules Well, yes, but it's not like there wasn't any human knowledge beyond the rules. The software knows a whole lot about learning and playing general games which it didn't discover on its own at all. Just nothing about chess in particular.
and it learned to play in just 4 hours Totally believable. About 30 years ago, the first backgammon bot learned playing in pretty much the same way. I don't know how long it took then, probably more like 4 weeks or even months rather than hours, but there are roughly 5000 hours in month, and consider how much faster Deepmind's deep learning monster is compared to what was available to Gerry Tesauro at the time.
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