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I didn't immediately get the reference. He is the Korean Go player who lost to AlphaGo in 2016.
by suprjami 17d ago
I didn't immediately get the reference. He is the Korean Go player who lost to AlphaGo in 2016.
- hackernud3s 17d agoWhy not Kasparov when he lost to Deep Blue though?
- jodrellblank 17d agoWhy not Goliath when he lost to David's new-fangled technology? Wikipedia[1] says Deep Blue had 30x 120Mhz CPUs and 480 custom VLSI chess chips, and could do 11 GFLOPS. HN[2] says that's roughly an iPhone 5s. Wikipedia[2] says 11 GFLOPS of compute power cost about half a billion inflation-adjusted dollars in the mid 1980s when the Deep Blue project was started; cost about half a million in 1996 when it was playing Kasparov; costs about 12 cents today. (Of course it's daft to compare custom chess chips and CPUs and GPUs, supercomputers and mobile SoCs, but it'll do). [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Blue_(chess_computer) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Blue_(chess_computer) [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9626731 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9626731 [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating_point_operations_per_second https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating_point_operations_per_...