Re: A computer masters the game GO

[Brent Meeker]

On 1/27/2016 10:38 AM, John Clark wrote:
Skeptics said a computer could never master the game of GO because 
there were 10^170 possible board positions , far far far more than 
chess and vastly more than the number of atoms in the observable 
universe, so a brute force search for the best move could never work 
and brute force was all computers could manage. But the skeptics were 
WRONG!


http://www.nature.com/news/google-ai-algorithm-masters-ancient-game-of-go-1.19234


But they'll never be able master the art of leadership and inspiration 
... like Sarah Palin


http://www.technologyreview.com/view/545606/how-an-ai-algorithm-learned-to-write-political-speeches/

Oh.nevermind.

Brent

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Re: A computer masters the game GO

[LizR]

Cool!

On 28 January 2016 at 14:33, Brent Meeker  wrote:

>
>
> On 1/27/2016 10:38 AM, John Clark wrote:
>
> Skeptics said a computer could never master the game of GO because there
> were 10^170 possible board positions , far far far more than chess and
> vastly more than the number of atoms in the observable universe, so a brute
> force search for the best move could never work and brute force was all
> computers could manage. But the skeptics were WRONG!
>
>
> 
> http://www.nature.com/news/google-ai-algorithm-masters-ancient-game-of-go-1.19234
>
>
> But they'll never be able master the art of leadership and inspiration ...
> like Sarah Palin
>
>
> http://www.technologyreview.com/view/545606/how-an-ai-algorithm-learned-to-write-political-speeches/
>
> Oh.nevermind.
>
> Brent
>
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