“Once we got AlphaZero right… it took just a few hours, like it took a few hours to outperform the two years of work…”

Training Data · David Silver and Lasse Espeholt of Ineffable Intelligence: A Superlearner for the Age of Experience

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removed all human data (human priors) from the training pipeline and let the algorithm learn from scratch

took a few hours vs two years of human-in-the-loop work

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