10 Mar
2016
10 Mar
'16
1:52 p.m.
On 10/03/2016 17:19, Warren D Smith wrote:
Well, if software testers refused to try to find bugs due to "etiquette" then there would be a lot more bugs.
But they haven't employed Lee Sedol as a tester. They've challenged him to a go match. My guess as to the actual question here: once the game gets near the end, I suspect AlphaGo's tree search will produce extremely strong play even if its neural networks mess up. So even conditional on the scenario you describe where AlphaGo's training hasn't equipped it to evaluate things well in unusual positions, I think it's very unlikely that playing on would have given Lee Sedol a non-negligible extra chance of winning. -- g