On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 1:46 PM, Aja Huang <ajahu...@google.com> wrote: > We are very excited to announce that our Go program, AlphaGo, has beaten a > professional player for the first time. AlphaGo beat the European champion > Fan Hui by 5 games to 0.
It's interesting to go back nearly a decade and read this 2007 article: http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/cracking-go where Feng-Hsiung Hsu, Deep Blue's lead developer, made this prediction: "Nevertheless, I believe that a world-champion-level Go machine can be built within 10 years" Which now appears to be spot on. March 9 cannot come soon enough... The remainder of his prediction rings less true though: ", based on the same method of intensive analysis—brute force, basically—that Deep Blue employed for chess". regards, -John _______________________________________________ Computer-go mailing list Computer-go@computer-go.org http://computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go
