On: AlphaGo Beats Lee Sedol in Final Game

[frabcus]

Nice question!

To make it fair, do you include the energy used to train it? From scratch, or from the amateur human game data?

Likewise, do you include the energy used to evolve the human brain?

[eggie → frabcus]

> Likewise, do you include the energy used to evolve the human brain?

I was thinking of this in a limited, human-promoting sense. We shouldn't lose sight of our own special powers just because a computer the size of a house can outsmart us in a specialized domain :)

[PeCaN → eggie]

...Especially when, you know, we made that computer....

That's the really impressive part IMO. AlphaGo is an incredibly cool creation. Hats off to the DeepMind team.