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Re:Mastering Chess and Shogi by Self-Play with General Reinf... by allenz on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @04:32PM (#15865208)
Absolutely. This required an exorbitant amount of compute, but DeepMind had to do novel, nontrivial research to make use of those resources.
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Re:Mastering Chess and Shogi by Self-Play with General Reinf... by allenz on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @06:50PM (#15866253)
Edit: DeepMind's victory over Stockfish didn't need novel research. Giraffe already demonstrated that the asymptotic speedup was possible; it just needed more compute.
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