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Google Go-Playing A.I. Retires To Focus On Energy Conservation And Medicine (engadget.com)
After "narrowly" beating the world's top Go player, what's left for Google's AlphaGo AI? Engadget reports:
Now that it has nothing left to prove, the AI is hanging up its boots and leaving the world of competitive Go behind. AlphaGo's developers from Google-owned DeepMind will now focus on creating advanced general algorithms to help scientists find elusive cures for diseases, conjure up a way to dramatically reduce energy consumption and invent new revolutionary materials. Before they leave Go behind completely, though, they plan to publish one more paper later this year to reveal how they tweaked the AI to prepare it for the matches against Ke Jie. They're also developing a tool that would show how AlphaGo would respond to a particular situation on the Go board with help from the world's number one player. While you'll have to wait a while for those two, you'll soon be able to watch 50 games AlphaGo played against itself when it was training
The first ten games that AlphaGo played against itself are already online. Shi Yue, 9 Dan Professional and World Champion, described them as "Like nothing I've ever seen before -- they're how I imagine games from far in the future." Google announced that this week's competition "has been the highest possible pinnacle for AlphaGo as a competitive program. For that reason, the Future of Go Summit is our final match event with AlphaGo... We hope that the story of AlphaGo is just the beginning."
The first ten games that AlphaGo played against itself are already online. Shi Yue, 9 Dan Professional and World Champion, described them as "Like nothing I've ever seen before -- they're how I imagine games from far in the future." Google announced that this week's competition "has been the highest possible pinnacle for AlphaGo as a competitive program. For that reason, the Future of Go Summit is our final match event with AlphaGo... We hope that the story of AlphaGo is just the beginning."
Are you stupid? They used their AI to cut the energy consumption in their data centers by 40% (!!!). And that was almost a year ago. If it did something similar to the grid, it would save $124 BILLION in electricity each year in the US alone.
I agree about the gullibility of some people, just disagree about who we are talking about.
The best chess AI programs are already rated 200+ points above the top-ranked human players. No master today disputes that a machine would kick their ass, even though masters train *daily* against AI programs.
Bill Gates recently acknowledged that their are different kinds of intelligence. We are starting to see how machine intelligence is of a kind we don't understand and won't match. How long we can keep an edge in other types of intelligence is the only point left to debate.
If you post it, they will read.
f you want to understand the issue, you need to understand the difference between weak and strong AI.
I know the difference, but weak AI still has an "I" in it. Intelligence is a broad and fuzzy concept, with many different elements. The computer can now capture some of these elements, just like a chicken or a dog can capture some, and in a growing number of cases, the computer can do it better than us. Obviously, we're not even close to making a computer that can capture the full range, but I don't believe there's a fundamental gap, just like there's no fundamental gap between a chicken and a human brain.