When the first AlphaGo results came out, I got quite annoyed, and polled twitter about whether I should write a debunking.
Isn’t the supposedly exciting thing about AlphaZero (and, to a lesser extent AlphaGo) that they *don’t* rely on human cleverness?
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No one's expecting cleverness to be unnecessary to *build* the thing...
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If AlphaGo were presented as an incremental engineering result in function approximation methods, no one would have been interested. The hype is that it’s a breakthrough in modeling human intuition.
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