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Mike Novack wrote:AlphaGo is more like a really powerful workstation/server class machine with a number of GPUs

The new version of AlphaGo doesn't use any GPUs. It runs on a single one of these Google's new ASICs that are small enough to be held on your hand.

I don't think the tool will be that interesting. More importantly, I'm looking forward to the scientific paper they're going to publish so that others can start replicate and eventually improve on AlphaGo's performance.