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Re:DarkForest: Deep learning engine for playing Go from Face... by gjm11 on Friday June 17, 2016 @11:40AM (#11923278)
Taking your question at face value (why don't they?): Because right now, so far as I can tell, Google is so far ahead that there would be little interest in the contest.

Perhaps Facebook will start to catch up, or Microsoft will suddenly appear with something startling, but for the moment the only real competition for AlphaGo comes from top human players. (Perhaps not even them? I don't think anyone really knows.)

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Re:DarkForest: Deep learning engine for playing Go from Face... by duaneb on Friday June 17, 2016 @01:22PM (#11924007)
> Google is so far ahead that there would be little interest in the contest.

Sounds like EXACTLY the motivation a contest would help to foster.

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Re:DarkForest: Deep learning engine for playing Go from Face... by mtgx on Friday June 17, 2016 @03:31PM (#11925016)
I think he's saying that, right now, both other companies would expect to be crushed in such a competition, so why would they not spare themselves the embarrassment?

And because we're doing silly memes, to accept the challenge, Microsoft and Facebook would probably have to go into the competition with this kind of attitude: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZYg4ZbcOPQ

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