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Re: Player of Games

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Post by thomasahle »

pixelpoet wrote: post #78

Anyone else surprised to see that Demis Hassabis didn't have a hand in this research? Given his background as a player of many games, and involvement in a lot of their research.

I'm more surprised David Silver isn't on it, since his background is in imperfect information games, with papers such as https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.01121 He did multiple poker papers before he was the main author of Alpha Zero.

Re: Player of Games

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Post by mudlus »

kadoban wrote: post #233
TaupeRanger wrote: post #232

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No it doesn't. Human Go players got worse after playing it. No one learned anything useful. The "knowledge" (if you can call it that) is all contained in an abstract, uninterpretable form that is of no use to anyone.

Who got worse, and how? Seems like a pretty unlikely claim to me on the face of it.

Knowledge isn't knowledge without an explanation: https://www.ted.com/talks/david_deutsch_a_new_way_to_explain...
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