Vaniver comments on AlphaGo versus Lee Sedol - Less Wrong

17 Post author: gjm 09 March 2016 12:22PM

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Comment author: Vaniver 09 March 2016 07:30:26PM 3 points [-]

This could be motivated thinking/speaking though.

The English commentators seemed to take a significant time to come up with score estimates, to the point where I think they were genuinely uncertain in a way that AlphaGo wasn't. (What would be interesting, for example, would be to look at AlphaGo's estimation of the score of historical tournament games that had commentary and see how well the two track each other.)

Comment author: Kaj_Sotala 09 March 2016 07:40:42PM 7 points [-]

Myungwan Kim seemed to be quicker to reach the right conclusion - IIRC, by the time that the fighting in the lower right corner ended, he was pretty sure of AlphaGo winning, to the extent of guessing that a move that lost AlphaGo around 1.5 points down there was because AG would win anyway.