[ExI] alpha zero

[Dylan Distasio]

I would consider the iron used for training supercomputer level, but not
the hardware used to play on later.   The trained weights are what are hard
to reproduce on conventional hardware, and are the special sauce.

On Dec 10, 2017 12:29 PM, "William Flynn Wallace" <foozler83 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I don't think that's what they did but if it was it would be just as
> impressive.
> ​ ​
> It inputs computer code that has been worked on by human programers for
> years and in less than a day it outputs computer code that does the same
> thing only much better. Programs improving programs and improving them a
> lot in just a few hours.
>  John K Clark
> -----
> Question:  are these supercomputers?  For the future - can we look forward
> to computers self-correcting/improving in several seconds rather than a few
> hours?  bill w
>
> On Sun, Dec 10, 2017 at 10:34 AM, John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Dec 10, 2017 at 10:48 AM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> ​>
>>> Ja of course this is impressive, but consider all the ways this could be
>>> achieved that would look like it had trained itself from nothing in a day.
>>> An eager press corps could report the program was given nothing but the
>>> rules of chess, when in reality it was given the StockFish chess engine
>>> with no opening book.  That would constitute being given chess rules only,
>>> if the phrase is interpreted broadly.  In fact, that would be a good
>>> approach to the problem: StockFish code is highly optimized already, so
>>> there is no need to reinvent that wheel.
>>>
>>>
>> ​
>> I don't think that's what they did but if it was it would be just as
>> impressive.
>> ​ ​
>> It inputs computer code that has been worked on by human programers for
>> years and in less than a day it outputs computer code that does the same
>> thing only much better. Programs improving programs and improving them a
>> lot in just a few hours.
>>
>>  John K Clark
>>
>>
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