20 Seconds of Thinking, 100,000× More Data

Noam Brown at TED AI: a poker bot thinking for 20 seconds matched scaling the model 100,000× and training it 100,000× longer.

“OpenAI scientist Noam Brown stuns TED AI Conference: ‘20 seconds of thinking worth 100,000x more data’.” Image: VentureBeat (via LinkedIn).

“It turned out that having a bot think for just 20 seconds in a hand of poker got the same boosting performance as scaling up the model by 100,000x and training it for 100,000 times longer.” – Noam Brown

Originally posted on LinkedIn.