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by ablob 1221 days ago
More targeted training won't do good, but why wouldn't more search help?

We've apparently entered the stage where the deciding factor between who wins, man or machine, is just an arms race.

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More targeted training won't do good, but why wouldn't more search help?

My understanding is that gwern above linked solid evidence in the paper for more search not being enough, as in, the model's evaluation NN is so way off target when searching, that realistic amounts of search don't help. Go seems to have many possible moves per position, so the search doesn't go very deep anyway.

Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, it might be that I misremembered how AlphaGo-style systems work.