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Re:AlphaGo beats Ke Jie again to wrap up three-part match by ggreer on Thursday May 25, 2017 @05:18AM (#14416177)
The underlying technology is far more general than than you think. In addition to playing Go, it has already been used to play video games[1], diagnose diseases[2], and make Google's datacenters more efficient.[3]

1. https://deepmind.com/blog/enabling-continual-learning-in-neu...

2. https://deepmind.com/applied/deepmind-health/

3. https://deepmind.com/blog/deepmind-ai-reduces-google-data-ce...

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Re:AlphaGo beats Ke Jie again to wrap up three-part match by yorwba on Thursday May 25, 2017 @06:26AM (#14416404)
In each case with lots of manual tweaking to get the best performance. Deep learning is not magic; you need to find the right kind of architecture for your problem, and that requires prior knowledge. Humans will still be in the loop for at least the next decade or so.
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Re:AlphaGo beats Ke Jie again to wrap up three-part match by Filligree on Thursday May 25, 2017 @07:57AM (#14416749)
> Humans will still be in the loop for at least the next decade or so.

Reassuring. Really.

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