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		dzdt on Dec 7, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google's AlphaZero Beats Stockfish In 100-Game Mat... The thing it does require is specialized hardware (TPU) to run at a reasonable speed.

pixl97 on Dec 7, 2017 [–]

A TPU isn't specialized hardware in the same way a CPU or GPU are not task specialized. All three are generic execution platforms that are optimized for a particular type of processing, but do so in a generalized fashion that can complete many different types of tasks.

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