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The way to find out how strong AlphaGo is is to start giving handicap and see when the game becomes even. A difference in rank of 1 stone corresponds roughly t
by cottonseed 11y ago
The way to find out how strong AlphaGo is is to start giving handicap and see when the game becomes even. A difference in rank of 1 stone corresponds roughly to a 2:1 advantage. It is traditional in long-running matches to increase the handicap by 1 after one player wins three consecutive games. I haven't heard any talk of that here -- I'm sure Lee Sedol wants the chance to beat AlphaGo in an even game -- but it would be interesting. It would also be interesting to see how AG plays when it thinks it is behind.
- clickok 11y agoThat might work; the concern is that this would take it too far off of the task it was trained on. That is, if it doesn't have a lot of experience being significantly down, then it won't play nearly as well when trying to catch up-- but that doesn't matter in even games because it never gets that far behind. You're right that it would be interesting to see, though-- we need to get better at understanding these sorts of systems, at least until they can start optimizing themselves. Alternatively, we might train a different agent (OmegaGo?) to try to win by the largest margin possible-- if it works as well as AlphaGo, then that might give us some more insight into how strong both programs are.