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by chillacy 3743 days ago
You can make AlphaGo stronger by adding machines, you can't make Sedol stronger by gluing more gray matter in his brain (yet I guess). So yea, efficiency is nice but so is scalability, and that's why this is exciting.

Also in a few years AlphaGo could be running on your cellphone. The chess AI Stockfish runs on an iphone today, and cellphones from what I could find online, uses less power than the brain (brain is roughly 20W, iphone has 1.4Wh battery which even if stockfish drains in 1 hour, is still 1W of power consumption)

Give it a few years and we'll all be saying "of course computers can play Go, but at least they can't <Insert task humans are still good at>"