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LurkAroundLurkAround t1_ixf68yn wrote

AlphaGo was beating the best, this is, according to the post, a top 10% player, which most likely means 9.x% percentile. This also includes players with more than 1 game, but they played 40 games. So just by allowing a bunch of 2 games player they up their stats. A fair comparison would have been to take players with at least 40 games, sample 40 games randomly and compute the score, and then check the performance on this subtrata.

Not to take away anything from the team, but given how the the results are framed, my instinct is to believe that this is a bit oversold.

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