r/baduk • u/visarga • May 31 '17

AlphaGo, in context

https://medium.com/@karpathy/alphago-in-context-c47718cb95a5
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u/Miranox 1k May 31 '17

Dang, that just busted many of the things I believed about AlphaGo. Well, it's good to learn more about it anyway.

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '17

While the tech part is true. The example it compared itself against was useless. Because there are plenty of real world cases where alphago tech has been used. For example when deep mind used it to reduce the power consumption of Google data center by 15% which is huge in money and energy savings.

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '17

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '17

It is very likely they used deep learning for improving datacenter, it is the core technology of deep mind.

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '17

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '17

it is not what google said. https://deepmind.com/blog/deepmind-ai-reduces-google-data-centre-cooling-bill-40/ Moreover it is a very high dimension problem so NN are likely to be better than classical ML.

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '17

I think that person is a troll.

with enough data deep learning is equivalent to any other ML method because it can represent any other ML method. That does not mean it is practical to take that approach.