Re:Go master Cho wins best-of-three series against Japan-mad...
by deegles on Thursday November 24, 2016 @11:02PM
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Developing special purpose machine learning hardware is part of the goal. I think of it like Formula 1, where the R&D eventually trickles down to consumer hardware.
Also, there's no reason why you couldn't have different competition categories where you're limited to using X dollars worth of time on a specific cloud provider, for example.
What's the advantage of this over simply providing every team with identical hardware and equal computing time? It seems like providing a fixed power supply would favor whoever can afford to buy more efficient computing equipment.