This is really neat!

Crazy to think that even with a GTX 1080 Ti:

> Recomputing the AlphaGo Zero weights will take about 1700 years on commodity hardware, see for example: http://computer-go.org/pipermail/computer-go/2017-October/01...

Sidenote: At first glance, I looked at the code and thought, 'This is all C++... not Go?' smh

What this tells me is that the near future of AI is going to be solely the domain of megacorporations who can drop >$25M USD on hardware (figure from the linked thread). That's pretty disappointing.