[ExI] Monster Machine Cracks The Game Of Go

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Monster Machine Cracks The Game Of Go
By Philip E. Ross Posted 27 Jan 2016

http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/computing/software/monster-machine-defeats-prominent-pro-player
A computer program has defeated a master of the ancient Chinese game
of Go, achieving one of the loftiest of the Grand Challenges of AI at
least a decade earlier than anyone had thought possible.

The programmers, at Google’s Deep Mind laboratory, in London, write in
today’s issue of Nature that their program AlphaGo defeated Fan Hui,
the European Go champion, 5 games to nil, in a match held last October
in the company’s offices.

The program’s victory marks the rise not merely of the machines but of
new methods of computer programming based on self-training neural
networks.
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