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Re:The Future of Go Summit – Ke Jie vs. AlphaGo by al_chemist on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @04:12AM (#14399695)
> How much energy goes into creating a civilization that produces that human?

By your definition, on AI side we should add energy spent on creating AI and civilization that produced it.

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Re:The Future of Go Summit – Ke Jie vs. AlphaGo by jayd16 on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @04:35AM (#14399778)
I think he's amortizing the cost to zero for the AI because the marginal cost per additional AI is much lower than the cost to sustain a civilization to churn out and bin human go players.
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Re:The Future of Go Summit – Ke Jie vs. AlphaGo by piyush_soni on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @04:19AM (#14399729)
And also, there's a certain amount of 'healthcare' cost involved like with all other computers.
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