On: AlphaGo Can't Beat Me, Says Chinese Go Grandmaster...

[eru]

So, that's actually not very expensive to rent for the duration of five games.

[Matt3o12_ → eru]

I don't know how long a game takes but I don't think google could afford letting anybody play, as stated in the original post.

[taneq → Matt3o12_]

Charge $1000 per game and pay out $10,000 if the human wins. Could be a nice earner. ;)

[Splines → taneq]

I'll pay for two simultaneous sessions of AlphaGo please :). I'll even let it go first in one of them!

[tim333 → Splines]

It would be nice if they preserve a snap shot of Alphago as it was a the start of the Sedol games as a historic thing. Then if they open source it people could go play it too. They have mostly open sourced their code but not I think the learning data.

[eru → tim333]

They would only need to open the learned coefficients, not the data learned from.

[taneq → Splines]

I like the way you think. :D

[ProblemFactory → Splines]

Clever, but they could easily detect this on their servers.