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AlphaGo versus Lee Sedol

by gjm

9th Mar 2016

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There have been a couple of brief discussions of this in the Open Thread, but it seems likely to generate more so here's a place for it.

The original paper in Nature about AlphaGo.

Google Asia Pacific blog, where results will be posted. DeepMind's YouTube channel, where the games are being live-streamed.

Discussion on Hacker News after AlphaGo's win of the first game.

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hairyfigment10y100

But more generally, AI should use whatever works. If that happens to be "scruffy" methods, then so be it.

This seems like a bizarre statement if we care about knowable AI safety. Near as I can tell, you just called for the rapid creation of AGI that we can't prove non-genocidal.

[+]jacob_cannell10y-70

2dxu10y

I don't believe Houshalter was referring to proving Friendliness (or something along those lines); my impression is that he was talking about implementing an AI, in which case neural networks, while "scruffy", should be considered a legitimate approach. (Of course, the "scruffiness" of NN's could very well affect certain aspects of Friendliness research; my relatively uninformed impression is that it's very difficult to prove results about NN's.)