i.e. "Lee Sedol used about 20 Watts of power to operate. By contrast, AlphaGo runs on a whopping 1920 CPUs and another 280 GPUs for an estimated power consumption of approximately 1 MW (200 W per CPU and 200 W per GPU). That’s 50,000 times as much power as the amount of power that Lee Sedol’s brain uses and the two are not quite evenly matched but it is close enough to use for comparison."[0]

I mean, sure, it's apples to oranges, but it feels like a pyrrhic victory to have to use 1MW of computing power to beat a 20w brain.

I want there to be a series of AI vs. AI games where everyone has an equal power budget for their AI. Everyone has to bring their own equipment and they receive exactly X kwh from a calibrated power supply to train their model. Training data could possibly also be standardized.

Each team would received a standardized power supply for the actual competition (e.g 20w). There could be bonuses for using less energy for training or during gameplay, or for faster response times between moves.

I believe this would drive innovation in building special purpose hardware, more efficient training models, and so on.

[0] http://jacquesmattheij.com/another-way-of-looking-at-lee-sed...