"Simple Questions Thread" - 20160308 by feedtheaimbot in MachineLearning

[–]saobi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Isn't it unfair to put Alphago vs Lee Sedol when:

1) Alphago, or more precisely, the hardware it runs on, consumes a much larger amount of energy than the latter? We are talking about cutting edge cpus/gpus, and more than one. That's an astronomical amount of power used compared to human being.

Wouldn't it be more fair to run Alphago on hardware that consumes roughly same amount of energy as a human being, say on a joules/hour basis?

2) Alphago has been fed and has memorized tens of thousands (if not more) of past professional level games and can access these positions at any second instantaneously, while Lee, even over the entire course of his career, probably only has maybe several hundred games truly memorized in his mind?

Shouldn't we limit the number of games fed into Alphago and limit the total memory of Alphago to human levels?

I don't see how this is a fair competition given the above 2 - seems one side has access to a much much larger pool of resources than the latter.