
Episode 27: Noam Brown, FAIR, on achieving human-level performance in poker and Diplomacy, and the power of spending compute at inference time
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How Much of an Improvement Would You Get if You Add Search to the Poker Bot?
We were always pretty far off. When I started my PhD, it was around 5,000 buckets. Every 100 hands we lost about 9 big blinds per 100. We do something different because it's really about computing equilibrium in that game. It's basically the same idea that you're throwing extra computation at the problem at inference time.
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