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by gavmor 323 days ago
This is "The Bitter Lesson" of AI, no? "More compute beats clever algorithm."
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Quite the opposite, a clever algorithm needs less compute, and can leverage extra compute even more.
Apologies, "clever" is a poor paraphrase of "domain-specific", or "methods that leveraged human understanding."[0]

0. http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html

> MuZero not only matched or surpassed AlphaZero, but it did so with less training

Seems the opposite?