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NYT Story On Go Programs And AI

Posted by timothy on from the mindstones dept.

mykej writes: "The NYT (registration required, blah blah) has a story on Go, the hardest game for computers to play. From the article: 'Programmers working on Go see it as more accurate than chess in reflecting the ineffable ways in which the human mind works. The challenge of programming a computer to mimic that process goes to the core of artificial intelligence, which involves the study of learning and decision-making, strategic thinking, knowledge representation, pattern recognition and, perhaps most intriguingly, intuition.' There are a few throwaway lines about Nash from 'A Beautiful Mind,' although they don't mention the game he invented after getting frustrated with the inconsistencies of go."

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  1. First post! by drsquare · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yes!

    1. Re:First post! by drsquare · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Erm, it said my score was 0 when I first posted it, now when I reply to it the score is 1, evne though no moderations have been made. Is this is a bug or something?

    2. Re:First post! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      I'm Second!

    3. Re:First post! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      NO!!!!!

  2. sloppy seconds by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Are nice, if the previous used a condom.

  3. Slashdot Effect by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    slashdot effect n.

    1. Also spelled "/. effect"; what is said to have happened when taco's anus is virtually unreachable because too many shirt-lifters are hitting it after he posts a boring pro-lunix article on the popular Slashdot news service. The term is quite widely used by /. readers, including variants like "Oh my god, my asshole has been slashdotted again!"

    2. In a perhaps inevitable generation, the term is being used to describe any similar effect from being butt-fucked by a large admiring crowd. This would better be described as a flash crowd.

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  4. try the usual test users by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    People generally use the same "bullshit logins" for everything. I tried test1234:test1234 and got right in! Slashdot should have a link to the NYT login generator. Maybe it does and I am ignorant.

    1. Re:try the usual test users by yatest5 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      People generally use the same "bullshit logins" for everything. I tried test1234:test1234 and got right in! Slashdot should have a link to the NYT login generator.

      It doesn't work no more, cos they put some funky referrer check in. You need to save it to your computer first. The link is here

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      • Mod parent up! [a] by Anonymous Coward (Score:5) Thurs, June 31, @13:37
    2. Re:try the usual test users by Rhombus · · Score: 0, Offtopic
      It doesn't work no more

      Hmm...worked for me...

  5. Speaking of pattern recognition by ch-chuck · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    If you stare at the Canadian Flag long enough, until you get background/foreground reversal, you can see two guys butting foreheads and arguing. Lets see an AI do that.

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    try { do() || do_not(); } catch (JediException err) { yoda(err); }
  6. Re:Computers by flipflapflopflup · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'd mod you down for slagging off my favorite game, but I can't cos you have the same damned IP address...

  7. Why was this post moderated overrated twice by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    crackhead mods!

  8. Re:A tidbit about Go by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You aren't a troll, you are a wanker.

  9. Re:Nash and hex by stephanruby · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "On the past June 15th, 2002, the US Congress officially recognized that the italian inventor Antonio Meucci is to be credited for the invention of the telephone, and not Alexander G. Bell, as so far claimed."
    http://www.popular-science.net/history/meucci_bell .html