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The fact that Lee Sedols hardware is a couple of pounds of wetware running on a peanut butter sandwich suggests the answer to your question is yes.

Whether those insights will come soon or not is the big question.




Hey, that wetware is ten time as powerful as what AlphaGo has to work with. Give or take a few orders of magnitude. And given that Lee's brain only uses a portion of that on Go.


> Hey, that wetware is ten time as powerful as what AlphaGo has to work with.

I don't think that's actually true. The hardware that AlphaGo is on is probably a lot more powerful than the one that is available in a single human brain, the big difference is in the software.

See the difference between the very best chess programs of a decade ago versus the ones now.




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