Hi, Prof. Marc Oliver Rieger from Trier University (Germany) is a participant in the Japanese Go Congress (July 15-18, 2016) in Takarazuka. In Germany's computer Go forum he gave some first impressions from the talk given by a Google developer of AlphaGo (including the question & answer session):
* Alpha go is still under Active development * How many developers still work on that? Not as many as before * Current version stronger than Lee Sedol version but definitely not four stones! * Don't believe internet rumors! (he also mentioned the stupid Ko conspiracy story) * Even without mc pretty strong. We haven't measured exactly * They also used other data than kgs -> radically different results regarding style * What data sets did you use? You'd be surprised if you'd know what data sets we tried out! But I can't tell you, sorry. * Very styles for different versions of alphago * I review my games with alpha go * Personally, I would very much like to see alphago being sold commercially * For me (5d Japanese) it would be strong enough without too much computational power * Will alpha go play beautiful? Didn't you think the shoulder hit was beautiful? ;-) The link to Marc's posting is here: http://www.dgob.de/yabbse/index.php?topic=6158.msg203261#msg203261 An announcement of the congress, from June 26, is here: http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201606260009.html Ingo. _______________________________________________ Computer-go mailing list Computer-go@computer-go.org http://computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go
