When the first AlphaGo results came out, I got quite annoyed, and polled twitter about whether I should write a debunking.
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Consensus was: either it’s significant, in which case you will look dumb soon, or else it isn’t, in which case everyone will forget about it, and you will have wasted your time.
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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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is brute forcing an extremely large training regime for an unsupervised system an innovation? it sounds kinda obvious and that the breakthrough was at the hardware integration layer rather than in the theory of the thing.
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