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Vaniver comments on AlphaGo versus Lee Sedol - Less Wrong Discussion

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

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Comment author: TheAltar 10 March 2016 04:32:01PM 0 points [-]

Does anyone know the current odds being given of Lee Sedol winning any of the three remaining games against AlphaGo? I'm curious if at this point is AlphaGo likely possible to beat by a human player better than Sedol (assuming there are any) or if we're looking at an AI player that is better than a human can be.

Comment author: Vaniver 10 March 2016 07:26:31PM 2 points [-]

The odds I saw for the second match were about 2:3 favoring AlphaGo; my guess is the odds moving forward will be more like 1:4 favoring AlphaGo (but probably it should be closer to something like 1:9).

if we're looking at an AI player that is better than a human can be.

This is my estimation.

Comment author: entirelyuseless 13 March 2016 03:39:44PM 2 points [-]

Lee Sedol has now won the fourth game, which makes this very improbable. I still think AlphaGo is better than him, but this basically means that its competence can still be measured on a human scale.

Comment author: Vaniver 13 March 2016 07:54:31PM 1 point [-]

Agreed that match 4 was a big surprise under my model (I thought it was about 1:20 favoring AlphaGo).