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		al_chemist on May 23, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Future of Go Summit – Ke Jie vs. AlphaGo > How much energy goes into creating a civilization that produces that human? By your definition, on AI side we should add energy spent on creating AI and civilization that produced it.

jayd16 on May 23, 2017 | [–]

I think he's amortizing the cost to zero for the AI because the marginal cost per additional AI is much lower than the cost to sustain a civilization to churn out and bin human go players.

piyush_soni on May 23, 2017 | [–]

And also, there's a certain amount of 'healthcare' cost involved like with all other computers.

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