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Re:What AlphaGo Zero teaches us about what’s going wrong wit... by choonway on Monday November 27, 2017 @08:11AM (#15786993)
The push came most likely from the pressures of the cold war. Now that it is long over, threats like Russia/Syria/ISIS/North Korea/China don't provide the same level of urgency to compete as before.
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Re:What AlphaGo Zero teaches us about what’s going wrong wit... by fjsolwmv on Monday November 27, 2017 @03:59PM (#15791308)
We are also past the era where someone like Shannon or Turing noodling on a sheet of paper could invent a war-changing idea.
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