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Re:Lee Sedol Beats AlphaGo in Game 4 by techdragon on Sunday March 13, 2016 @04:53AM (#11276846)
I was hoping to see how AlphaGo would play in overtime. Now I'm curious, does it know how to play in overtime? Can the system handle evaluating how much time it can give itself to 'think' about each move, or does it fall into the halting problem territory and it was programmed to evaluate its probability of winning given the 'fixed' time it had left.
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Re:Lee Sedol Beats AlphaGo in Game 4 by grogenaut on Sunday March 13, 2016 @05:00AM (#11276883)
It's called scorboarding. You start coming up with solutions and ranking them and putting the best one up on the scoreboard. When you run out of time, you just go with what you got. Pretty much what humans have.

I'm sure there are many levels of watchdogs in this program.

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Re:Lee Sedol Beats AlphaGo in Game 4 by KPLauritzen on Sunday March 13, 2016 @04:59AM (#11276875)
They've been in overtime before. In game 2 I think. AlphaGo spent about 30 seconds on each move
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Re:Lee Sedol Beats AlphaGo in Game 4 by apetresc on Sunday March 13, 2016 @05:00AM (#11276881)
It was in overtime in game 2, I believe. It did fine.
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