Mastering Chess and Shogi by Self-Play with General Reinforcement Learning

Re:Mastering Chess and Shogi by Self-Play with General Reinf... by CydeWeys on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @11:36PM (#15867659)

"Equivalent hardware" is only relevant if we're talking about cost. When measured by that metric, the TPUs are indeed superior. Raw operations is an irrelevant metric given the existence of economic purpose-specific hardware that can perform a lot more of the operations required for matrix multiplication than for general computation. GPUs work exactly the same.

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Re:Mastering Chess and Shogi by Self-Play with General Reinf... by Retric on Thursday December 07, 2017 @06:51AM (#15869274)

Again, cost is relative to hardware you have. If you own a supercomputer already and you want to run chess on it for whatever reason it matters what the performance you get from each algorithm on that hardware. If your going to buy new hardware it's design depends on performance across every algorithm you expect to use.

So, the only case where chess performance per $ matters is if you are only going to ever use that hardware to run chess. In every other case which is the vast majority of the time you care about diffent metrics.

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