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It's only difficult because no one threw money at it. It's like saying going to Mars is difficult. It is - but most of the technology is there already, just need money to improve what was used to go to the moon.

If you asked people 10 years ago before the moon landing if it was possible, I too would agree it's impossible. But after that breakthrough it opened up the realm is possibilities.

I see AlphaGo more of an incremental improvement than a breakthrough.




It's a basic human bias to believe that anything that you don't have to do (or know how to do) "just needs money" to get done.


So are you arguing that superhuman-level performance in just a matter of engineering effort? Or am I missing something?

I'm generally considered to be way over optimistic in my assessment of AI progress. But wow.. that's pretty optimistic!


I interpreted him as saying superhuman-performance at Go was just a matter of engineering effort, which I wholeheartedly agree with.




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