[ExI] Monster Machine Cracks The Game Of Go

[John Clark]

Very cool! It looks like the AI skeptics were wrong.

  John K Clark

On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 1:07 PM, BillK <pharos at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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