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Ancient Alien
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Are you guys following this?
I am finding the whole thing completely fascinating and kind of astonishing. Not just because AlphaGo won the first two matches, but the way it won them. All the pros watching and commenting seem completely taken aback, because the strategy is like nothing they've ever seen before.
Definitely feels like a different sort of achievement than Deep Blue beating Kasparov because Deep Blue was still playing in a way that was recognizably "human."
Anyway, there's a lot of press, but the Wired article is pretty good: http://www.wired.com/2016/03/sadness-beauty-watching-googles-ai-play-go/?mbid=social_fb
AlphaGo is obviously a niche application, but watching a computer totally shake up a 3,000 year old game in the span of a single match really makes you wonder where machine learning is going to take us in the next couple decades.
I am finding the whole thing completely fascinating and kind of astonishing. Not just because AlphaGo won the first two matches, but the way it won them. All the pros watching and commenting seem completely taken aback, because the strategy is like nothing they've ever seen before.
Definitely feels like a different sort of achievement than Deep Blue beating Kasparov because Deep Blue was still playing in a way that was recognizably "human."
Anyway, there's a lot of press, but the Wired article is pretty good: http://www.wired.com/2016/03/sadness-beauty-watching-googles-ai-play-go/?mbid=social_fb
AlphaGo is obviously a niche application, but watching a computer totally shake up a 3,000 year old game in the span of a single match really makes you wonder where machine learning is going to take us in the next couple decades.
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