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visarga on March 10, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: AlphaGo beats Lee Sedol again in match 2 of 5

AlphaGo uses much simpler hardware for play than for training. I think the Go associations can afford to run the hardware.

eru on March 10, 2016 [–]

It's only a couple hundred GPUs for training. You can afford to rent that in the cloud for probably a hundred bucks or less per game.

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