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Re:How much did AlphaGo Zero cost? (2018) by __s on Thursday June 11, 2020 @12:21PM (#23490419)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbiVbd_CEIA

At the last Blizzcon they had it around. The setup wasn't ideal, so Serral (won world finals in 2018, reached semifinals in 2019) wasn't really happy with how he played, but it won

This was also a version where they'd worked on preventing its ability to micro at quadruple digit apm

Re:How much did AlphaGo Zero cost? (2018) by ajnin on Thursday June 11, 2020 @11:05PM (#23495601)
That match was still arguably not fair for the human because of the imperfect input and outputs he had to deal with. In the end I'm not sure it makes sense to put artificial handicaps on the machine to leave the human a chance. It's like a swimming race between a fish and some land animal but the fish is not allowed to use its fins. Sure the other guy has a better chance to win, but, what does that measure really?