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by yeukhon 3313 days ago
Most importanly, it is almost inevitable they must run on a fam of computers basically mean it becomes a service. Can we ever create a robot who can self-learn but with the super brain power locally without having to call a service for an answer?
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skybrian 3313 days ago
TPU's are available for rent. Also, apparently AlphaGo became 10x more efficient in a year. Who's to say other Go engines won't continue improving efficiency?

Between software and hardware improvements I think it's likely that we'll see very strong Go engines on desktop computers in a few years.

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wiz21c 3313 days ago
This raises a question for me : is there currently some public infrastructure that can rival with AlphaGo ?
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yeukhon 3313 days ago
Public means API? AlphaGo is very specialized in solving Go game. Google, Amazon and IBM have services for various services like image recongition and speech recongition. Startups like Clarifi also exists in that space.

The closest to a generalized AI service would probably be Watson from IBM (but I don't have experiment with it sadly so I am not sure about the usage experience).

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wiz21c 3313 days ago
Public in the sense of non proprietary, in this case most likely universities.

My question was more : Google probably based its tools on existing tools, and those most likely come from universities (research paper, computer infrastructures, etc.). So what are those tools, where are they ?

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Choco31415 3313 days ago
Google originally used Torch7 as their ML library, but shifted to use TensorFlow in April 2016. TensorFlow is written by Google itself.

AlphaGo itself uses a method that combines Monte Carlo tree search with value and policy NN. All NN used are concurrent NN. The specifics are in a paper by David Silver et al: https://dvc0t0mx8dl84.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2016...

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nl 3313 days ago
> The closest to a generalized AI service would probably be Watson from IBM

Ha ha ha!

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doktrin 3313 days ago
>> The closest to a generalized AI service would probably be Watson from IBM

> Ha ha ha!

can you expand on that for those of us who don't know much about the field?

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yeukhon 3313 days ago
That's not very nice.
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nl 3312 days ago
Sorry, I honestly thought you were joking.

'Watson' as it is sold today is a mishmash of random, separate services. You can get the same from Google, MS or multiple other places.

'Watson' the jeopardy winning thing was an ensemble of search and rule-based NLP techniques.

Neither are much like general AI.

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