Microsoft Research Takes On Go

mikejuk writes "Microsoft Research has used F# and AI to implement a consumer-quality game of Go — arguably the most difficult two-person game to implement. They have used an interesting approach to the problem of playing the game, which is a pragmatic cross between tree search with pruning and machine learning to spot moves with a 'good shape.' The whole lot has been packaged into an XNA-based game with a story."

Comments

Re:WTF?

[TheNetAvenger]

You are not understanding how languages work inherently different.

All the C++ libraries in the world will not change how C++ fundamentally works.

Re:Oh, who cares about quality?

[Alex Belits]

Microsoft keeps a "research team" for the sole purpose of paying people to not work for Microsoft's enemies (what at this point is pretty much everyone else). Microsoft's own interests are so far at odds with any kind of progress in technology, they can't give those "researchers" any projects that Microsoft itself can use in its own products, and this is the fact that I am going to bring to attention every time Microsoft Research is mentioned here.