<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 10:28 AM, Dave Sill <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sparge@gmail.com" target="_blank">sparge@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><br><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="2">​<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​>> ​</div>So Einstein should get no credit for discovering General Relativity, the entire credit​</font></div><font size="2"> </font><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="2">​should go to Einstein's teachers. But no that can't be right, the credit should go to the teachers of Einstein's teachers. But no that can't be right....</font></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div> <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​> ​</div>No, Einstein's teachers didn't program him to discover fundamental theories of physics. </div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">​<font size="4">And the Google ​people didn't program </font></font><font size="4"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">AlphaGo to be better GO players than they were because they didn't have that ability. Instead </span>AlphaGo learned and got better in exactly precisely the same way that novice human GO players do, it studied the games of previous grandmasters and constantly played games against itself; the only difference is the machine learned better and faster than a human could. </font></div></div><div class="gmail_default"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font size="4"> John K Clark</font></div><div> </div></div><br></div></div>