So there are at least three by your count, and that was only a shallow dredge of the pond.
I obtained an early version of a computer game and frittered away a lot of hours playing that maniacal coffee maker. I found the flaw that the writer relied upon and wiped out the game every time. That style of playing against a stupid piece of code was horrible but only worked against a machine. The flaw was that it made decisions on perceived values. So it was easy to lead it into disaster. I had never seen a human play in that manner nor may that even be possible. Indeed I was able to annihilate it every game, wipe it off the board. This is considered very offensive and humiliating by Oriental Standards. But then I reminded my teachers that Cossacks were never noted for their Table Manners. Talk about a group of Intense Nicotine Addicts back then... Only a confirmed Go player could breathe that atmosphere. Though I wonder why Hawking is so afraid of this machine when it can humble the best of us. Just make the board much larger. At some point we will smell insulation burning. vib -----Original Message----- From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Steven A Smith Sent: January-30-17 9:54 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] AI advance Vlad - I am the weakest of GO players, in spite of having considered the problem of trying to use Gosper's memoisation as a mode of associative memory problem solving. Cody the M00se Dooderson has beat me every time we have played I think. Weak, weak, weak! But I do find it fascinating. - Steve On 1/30/17 8:07 PM, Vladimyr Burachynsky wrote: > To Joseph Spinden, > > The article is old and I wonder if you play the game. > I ran a Go club at the University of Manitoba and can tell you strange > stories about a time before Hassabis. > > I swear I never won a game in 5 years but I kept playing anyway. > I guess I am bloody minded. Eventually I discovered that my handicap > was being reduced and suspect I was close to 1 Dan at the time. I was > told that was harder than a Ph.D. So I went for the degree and > sloughed off the game. > > There should be a few players in the congregation, let them speak up. > vib > > -----Original Message----- > From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Joseph > Spinden > Sent: January-28-17 8:32 AM > To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group > Subject: [FRIAM] AI advance > > Of interest to some: > > https://www.wired.com/2016/01/in-a-huge-breakthrough-googles-ai-beats- > a-top- > player-at-the-game-of-go > > -JS > > > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe > at St. John's College to unsubscribe > http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe > at St. John's College to unsubscribe > http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove