A couple years later, it’s still bogus, and the hype tsunami has climbed even higher. Probably nothing I could have done would have punctured the bubble, but I regret not trying.
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Replying to @Meaningness
I'd be curious to see your debunking or at least a quick summary?
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Replying to @shlevy
They showed that brute force works on another board game. That’s all.
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Replying to @Meaningness @shlevy
how cleverly do you have to go about applying force before it ceases to be brute?
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Replying to @admittedlyhuman @shlevy
42.73. (I don’t know what you are asking?)
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Replying to @Meaningness @admittedlyhuman
Was AlphaGo's success solely a function of compute resources/time or were those resources used especially well?
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Replying to @shlevy @admittedlyhuman
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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Replying to @Meaningness @admittedlyhuman
No one's expecting cleverness to be unnecessary to *build* the thing...
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Replying to @shlevy @admittedlyhuman
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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Replying to @Meaningness @admittedlyhuman
I've literally never heard anyone claim it's modelling human intuition... But I've no claim to a representative bubble.
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“About 43,400 results” https://www.google.com/search?q=alphago+intuition&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b-1-ab …
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The idea that alphago mimics human intuition is, being extraordinarily charitable, so premature as to undermine credibility.
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