Lee Sedol Beats AlphaGo in Game 4

Re:Lee Sedol Beats AlphaGo in Game 4 by spatulan on Sunday March 13, 2016 @04:52AM (#11276842)

I wonder what the chances are of a cosmic ray or some stray radiation causing AlphaGo to have problems. It's quite a rare event, but when you have 1920 CPUs and 280 GPUs, it might up the probability enough to be something you have to worry about.

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Re:Lee Sedol Beats AlphaGo in Game 4 by teling on Sunday March 13, 2016 @04:57AM (#11276861)

I would expect them to be running on Google's distributed infrastructure which has error corrections through end to end checksums

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Re:Lee Sedol Beats AlphaGo in Game 4 by tomlock on Sunday March 13, 2016 @05:13AM (#11276929)

Actually they were running on a single PC!

https://twitter.com/demishassabis/status/708489093676568576

ed: oops I misread!

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Re:Lee Sedol Beats AlphaGo in Game 4 by mrgordon on Sunday March 13, 2016 @05:22AM (#11276957)

"Using distributed for match but single machine AG very strong also"

Doesn't this imply they weren't using a single PC?

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Re:Lee Sedol Beats AlphaGo in Game 4 by barrym on Sunday March 13, 2016 @05:32AM (#11276992)

They're using the distributed version for these matches, this question was just asked in the post match press conference.

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