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Google improved the outcome by putting in large amounts of processing power. What happens, if humans would do the same?

Instead of just Lee Sedol, how about putting the top 10 Go players in a room vs. AlphaGo? Would the chance to win increase?

Maybe we find out, that 3 top go players vs. AI is the optimal way and adding more humans decreases the odds to win the match?

This would lead to following question: Why does AI improve, if we add more processing power while adding more human brainpower decreases their overall power?

Maybe we find out, that 3 good developers working on a project are optimal and more decrease the chance of success?



It may come down to limits in https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_performance humans have as well as the speed at which consensus is reached.


With multiple humans, the co-ordination and communication would dominate.

Do you think the humans would win at Twitch Plays AlphaGo ?


Knowing Google, it would be a good promotion to have a Youtube Plays AlphaGo.


Ultimately it may be one or more humans networked in some fashion with computers that proves most effective at tasks such as this.


In one word: Bandwidth.




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