Re:AlphaGo beats Lee Sedol again in match 2 of 5
by thomasahle on Thursday March 10, 2016 @03:47AM
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Why wouldn't you allow that? Surely the human thinks in the computer's time.
Re:AlphaGo beats Lee Sedol again in match 2 of 5
by 21 on Thursday March 10, 2016 @03:50AM
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So that the human has a chance...
Increasing the human time is not an option, since no one wants to watch 8 hour games, and fatigue could also come into play, so the only real option for a winning chance is reducing computer time/power
Re:AlphaGo beats Lee Sedol again in match 2 of 5
by Someone on Thursday March 10, 2016 @04:18AM
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You do not have to watch it live. Correspondence chess is a real thing (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correspondence_chess), with fewer blunders than tournament chess.
Correspondence go, similarly, would see fewer errors. Holding a world championship would take quite a bit longer than in chess, though (rough guess: 300-ish half-moves per game versus 100-ish half moves, the latter, I guess, with a bit more variation). That could be problematic, as a world championship in chess already takes years (curiously, some championships finished before the one started a year earlier did)
Re:AlphaGo beats Lee Sedol again in match 2 of 5
by masklinn on Thursday March 10, 2016 @04:28AM
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> Increasing the human time is not an option, since no one wants to watch 8 hour games
FWIW regular tournament Go games go up to 6 hours, and title games can take more than 16h and span over two days.
And you can always give the computer less time than the human, but this just shows that it's stronger than you and you need to handicap it to have a chance.