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Researchers developed a simple way to exploit a computer’s understanding of the game so that even an amateur can win. Continue reading A Human Amateur Beat a Top Go-Playing AI Using a Simple Trick
Master Go player Lee Se-dol has handed in his stones after deciding that there’s just no way to beat a machine when playing the ancient Chinese board game. Continue reading Master Go player retires citing AI supremacy
AlphaGo is the deep learning program that can beat humans at the game Go. You can read Google’s highly technical paper on it, but you’ll have to wade through some very academic language. [Aman Agarwal] has done us a favor. He took the original paper and dissected the important parts of in in plain English. If the title doesn’t make sense to you, you need to read more XKCD.
[Aman] says his treatment will be useful for anyone who doesn’t want to become an expert on neural networks but still wants to understand this important breakthrough. He also thinks people …read more
Move aside, ugly, giant bags of mostly water, the computers are teaching themselves now Continue reading Google AI teaches itself ‘superhuman’ chess skills in four hours
Baidu’s speech recognition neural network could change the way people type. Continue reading Is China Ready to Ditch Typing?
And there’s already a second match coming up in a matter of hours. Talk about pressure! Continue reading In Unexpected Defeat, Google’s AI Beat World-Class Go Champion Lee Sedol
We wake up this morning to the news that Google’s deep-search neural network project called AlphaGo has beaten the second ranked world Go master (who happens to be a human being). This is the first of five matches between the two adversaries that will play out this week.
On one hand, this is a sign of maturing technology. It has been almost twenty years since Deep Blue beat Gary Kasparov, the reigning chess world champion at the time. Although there are still four games to play against Lee Sedol, it was recently reported that AlphaGo beat European Go champion Fan …read more
Continue reading Ask Hackaday: Google Beat Go; Bellwether or Hype?
The first of five matches between Google DeepMind’s AlphaGo and puny human Lee Sedol is starting right now. Continue reading Tonight: Watch a Professional Go Player Take on Google’s AI