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Comment author: James_Miller 10 March 2016 05:58:10PM 6 points [-]

For me the most interesting part of this match was the part where one of the DeepMind team confirmed that because AlphaGo optimizes for probability of winning rather than expected score difference, games where it has the advantage will look close. It changes how you should interpret the apparent closeness of a game

Qiaochu Yuan, or him quoting someone.

Comment author: Douglas_Knight 11 March 2016 04:18:34AM 1 point [-]

Almost all algorithms for almost all games play to win. That isn't anything special about AlphaGo. Maybe there's something special about Go or about this algorithm that makes is harder to assess, but that isn't a reason.

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