They showed that brute force works on another board game. That’s all.
Oh, definitely. But would Google have spent billions of dollars to entertain people who play go?
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You're just dismissing the possibility that Google genuinely believes this is a step toward more useful AI... Even if they're wrong.
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I think that’s quite likely. Presumably the confusion starts with DeepMind themselves. (I assume they honestly believe they’ve done something important.) Then, plausibly, they’ve confused Alphabet’s upper management.
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Hmm. No, but I think the relevant question is if they would have spent billions of dollars to impress people who did not play Go, but knew that Go was famously a less-solved strategy game than Chess.
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Famous to whom? A few thousand geeks, I’d guess. A plausible explanation for the PR push is that Google wants to attract the best engineers by seeming to be an exciting place to work. Maybe DeepMind is part of their recruiting budget, in which case, you would be right!
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