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> Defeat the best Go players, training only on as many games as the best Go players have played. For reference, DeepMind’s AlphaGo has probably played a hundred million games of self-play, while Lee Sedol has probably played 50,000 games in his life.

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Seems a bit unfair. Go player study games of other players too, they don't just rely on personal experience.

But it's still much less than 100 million games. If I assume that playing a Go game (or looking at a record and understanding the moves taken) takes one hour (which is a wild guess since I'm not familiar with the game), 100 million games take nearly 11408 years.

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