[zucker42]

I wonder if the code and network weights will ever see the light of day. I wonder what the eventual value proposition of working on this sort of stuff is. I suppose they are just going to try to apply the algorithms to better things.

I've been interested in the application of AlphaZero to chess. It's sad that this many resources were devoted to something which we can't even use to play chess as of now. Leela (the open source reengineer) is really strong, but the crushing results presented in the AlphaZero paper never materialized. And this article just shows how hard they are to replicate.

[RobertoG]

>>" I wonder what the eventual value proposition of working on this sort of stuff is."

It seems to me that, if you only take it as a marketing operation, it has been already very valuable.

[hobofan]

I'd really love to know how big the marketing impact on IBM Watson from this was. Somehow they managed to put the idea that "Watson is the best available AI" so well in the heads of then general population that 50%+ of my non-tech friends somehow thought that Watson beat the Go pros when I was talking with them about the topic when it was in the news.