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Human Go Champion 'Speechless' After 2nd Loss To Machine (phys.org)
Reader chasm22 points to a Phys.org report about the second straight loss of Lee Sedol to AlphaGo, the program developed by Google's DeepMind unit. The human Go champion, Sedol found himself "speechless" after the showdown on Thursday. The human versus machine face-off lasted more than four hours, which to Sedol's credit is a slight improvement over his previous match, which had ended with him resigning nearly half an hour remaining on the clock.
"It was a clear loss on my part," Sedol said at a press conference on Thursday. "From the beginning there was no moment I thought I was leading." Demis Hassabis, who heads Google's DeepMind, said, "Because the number of possible Go board positions exceeds the number of atoms in the universe, top players rely heavily on their intuition."
Sedol will battle Google's AlphaGo again on Saturday, Sunday, and Tuesday.
My brother dan is older than 9, maybe he should have a go.
They tried to program a computer to play Magic The Gathering, but the computer immediately received a wedgie, and was stuffed into a locker.
AI's will also never best you at sitting on the couch in your parents' basement eating cheetos and watching anime. Your skillz are safe.
You, sir, broke my parser.
Singularity: a belief in the "God" idea with the "demiurge" relation inverted.
Second, I would like to see how the computer fares against a consensus of experts. By consensus, I'm imagining a group of 5-10 top players who discuss the best next move and then select the next move hopefully by consensus or at least by majority vote.
So you want a RAGE against the machine? (Redundant Array of Go Experts)
Reading code is like reading the dictionary - you have to read half of it before you can go back and understand it.