I hope you are all well & in good spirits.
Jeff Bezos: "Humans are VERY efficient. If AlphaGo was limited to 50 watts like us, it would have been crushed." (Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.com, as quoted by Silicon Valley legend Bill Gross).
The Human vs Machine: AlphaGo (Google DeepMind) vs Lee Sedol match received much press coverage:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaGo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaGo_versus_Lee_Sedol
The ancient game of Go is significant (in part) because, by important metrics, it has a greater game complexity than Chess:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_complexity
Jeff Bezos' remark raises an interesting possibility: what if we were to limit Chess computers by POWER, limiting them (as he suggests) to 50 watts (or whatever the human limit is).
It would be an interesting equalization.
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