[eggie]

I would love to compare the energy requirements of the AlphaGo and Mr. Sedol. I imagine there are many orders of magnitude in difference between them. Perhaps the most fair comparison would be between a computer that uses no more energy than a human does. Or, to let the human work with a computer provided they do not use more total energy to play the game.

[frabcus]

Nice question!

To make it fair, do you include the energy used to train it? From scratch, or from the amateur human game data?

Likewise, do you include the energy used to evolve the human brain?

[eggie]

> Likewise, do you include the energy used to evolve the human brain?

I was thinking of this in a limited, human-promoting sense. We shouldn't lose sight of our own special powers just because a computer the size of a house can outsmart us in a specialized domain :)

[PeCaN]

...Especially when, you know, we made that computer....

That's the really impressive part IMO. AlphaGo is an incredibly cool creation. Hats off to the DeepMind team.

[eru]

In chess, your smartphone that uses less energy than your brain, can already beat the world champions. Go might get there in a few years.