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Blake Eskin's avatar

When I talk about Humans v. Machines with my journalism students, I start with John Henry. John Henry and Desk Set.

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David Rein's avatar

I disagree with the upshot of the existence of adversarial policies. If you trained alphago on a few of these games, it would easily be resistant to them. So you can only eke out a tiny fraction of wins against the system by using that strategy, after which it’ll continue dominating you. So the real conclusion IMO is like “after losing 1e6 games in a row, you can win like 10 games, after which the strategy stops working, and then you’ll lose the next 1e12 games until you find another trick, etc.”

So you’re still losing like 99.999999……% of the time.

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