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Re:AlphaGo beats Lee Sedol again in match 2 of 5 by visarga on Thursday March 10, 2016 @05:40AM (#11258376)
AlphaGo uses much simpler hardware for play than for training. I think the Go associations can afford to run the hardware.
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Re:AlphaGo beats Lee Sedol again in match 2 of 5 by eru on Thursday March 10, 2016 @06:10AM (#11258481)
It's only a couple hundred GPUs for training. You can afford to rent that in the cloud for probably a hundred bucks or less per game.
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