AlphaGo Zero
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Chen: AlphaGo Zero used 4 TPUs and 3 days, crushing prior versions
“It was 48 TPUs versus four. It was three days versus 40. It was thirty million trained games versus 4.9. So Order of magnitude improvement on all of those dimensions.”
Chen: AlphaGo Zero discovered 1,000 years of human Go strategies in days
“Thousands of generations of games playing each other sort of arrive at places that maybe humans would have gotten to if we played another thousand years, but like, you know, it figured out in three days.”
Chen: AlphaGo Zero proves reinforcement learning succeeds without labeled data
“Right, where there's so much momentum right now that says, basically, we're one labeled data set away from glory. Right, and this result basically shows you, wow, there's a lot of mileage that you can get out of reinforcement learning where there's no data, no…”