[ExI] alpha zero

[Dylan Distasio]

I think you would be surprised at how little code is actually there if we
could see the source code.  Tensorflow does a lot of heavy lifting in terms
of abstracting neural nets, and the secret sauce in the recipe is the
trained weights of the net.  There is very little conventional code beyond
setting up the structure of the neural net and the reinforcement
objectives.  Training on 77 million simulated games is the key.

On Thu, Dec 7, 2017 at 2:15 PM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:

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> *From:* spike [mailto:spike66 at att.net]
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> *Subject:* RE: [ExI] alpha zero
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> *From:* extropy-chat [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org
> <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org>] *On Behalf Of *spike
> *Subject:* Re: [ExI] alpha zero
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> *From:* extropy-chat [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org
> <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org>] *On Behalf Of *John Clark
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> ​>>>​…I still haven’t convinced myself it is true. spike
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> >>…If this is a hoax it's a very elaborate one the likes of which we
> haven't seen since the cold fusion fiasco. ​…John K Clark ​
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> There is something else.  If someone writes a chess-playing program today
> that defeats the best effort of the best humans for 500 years, that has
> been done.  According to the article, what Alpha Zero has done is defeat
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> working with huge monetary rewards for the past 75 years, which is far more
> impressive than overpowering humans in chess.
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> Something is still not being told here methinks.
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