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SquirrelInHell comments on After Go, what games should be next for DeepMind? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: SquirrelInHell 10 March 2016 11:20:08PM 3 points [-]

Why isn't it obvious?

I know what I'd do.

Run the algorithm on the Bitcoin market, and then on the stock market.

Comment author: CellBioGuy 11 March 2016 12:32:37AM 4 points [-]

That's pretty darn far from perfect information.

Comment author: dxu 11 March 2016 06:04:38PM 0 points [-]

Even so, I highly doubt the best human traders are anywhere close to optimal. It'd be interesting to see how much better a machine-learning approach would fare.

Comment author: Vaniver 11 March 2016 06:16:03PM 4 points [-]

Many of the successful trading firms are powered by ML, of both the price-watching and NLP news-watching variety. I don't think Deepmind has a comparative advantage against them, but I do expect that people at those firms are trying out deep learning approaches.

Comment author: Lumifer 11 March 2016 06:16:56PM 1 point [-]

Here you go

Comment author: Lumifer 11 March 2016 06:06:29PM 0 points [-]

Run the algorithm on the Bitcoin market, and then on the stock market.

Yeah, that.

Comment author: Houshalter 17 March 2016 08:04:03AM 0 points [-]

As if there aren't tons of other people using neural nets on the stock market.

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