[ExI] alpha zero

[spike]

>… On Behalf Of Dylan Distasio
Subject: Re: [ExI] alpha zero

 

Spike-

>…You can read more on what a TPU actually is here if you're interested, but they're basically custom hardware that is good at running neural nets:
https://cloud.google.com/blog/big-data/2017/05/an-in-depth-look-at-googles-first-tensor-processing-unit-tpu

>…It took 9 hours to train on 44 million different chess games… Dylan

 

 

Ja OK that might be the missing piece: it looked at 44 million chess games.  I had mistakenly drawn the conclusion it didn’t go to existing records but somehow bootstrapped itself to that skill level.  It didn’t generate the games itself.

OK cool, that might have been explained in the original article in ChessNews but I somehow missed it.

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