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Re:AlphaGo beats Lee Sedol again in match 2 of 5 by jacquesm on Thursday March 10, 2016 @05:24AM (#11258313)
The fact that Lee Sedols hardware is a couple of pounds of wetware running on a peanut butter sandwich suggests the answer to your question is yes.

Whether those insights will come soon or not is the big question.

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Re:AlphaGo beats Lee Sedol again in match 2 of 5 by Symmetry on Thursday March 10, 2016 @08:29AM (#11259021)
Hey, that wetware is ten time as powerful as what AlphaGo has to work with. Give or take a few orders of magnitude. And given that Lee's brain only uses a portion of that on Go.
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Re:AlphaGo beats Lee Sedol again in match 2 of 5 by jacquesm on Thursday March 10, 2016 @11:08AM (#11259978)
> Hey, that wetware is ten time as powerful as what AlphaGo has to work with.

I don't think that's actually true. The hardware that AlphaGo is on is probably a lot more powerful than the one that is available in a single human brain, the big difference is in the software.

See the difference between the very best chess programs of a decade ago versus the ones now.

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