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No one thought that Go was impossible except people who weren't involved in engineering/software and shouldn't have been taken seriously in the first place. Su
by TaupeRanger 5y ago
No one thought that Go was impossible except people who weren't involved in engineering/software and shouldn't have been taken seriously in the first place.
Superhuman game AI has existed for decades. It's entirely unsurprising that one can play a strategy game, and no one thought it wasn't possible.
I'll send you $500 USD if AlphaFold derivatives lead to a single new therapy or drug that helps real patients in the next 5 years.
- sdenton4 5y ago'In the next 10 years' is the key phrase here. Everyone watching Go (I looked at the problem 15-ish years ago) thought it required a massive advance to beat the best humans. DeepMind made that advance. 'bah, whatever, both Newton and Leibniz were hacks. Everyone knew calculus would have been invented anyway. It's basically a consequence of some stuff Archimedes did.'