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R.I.P. the game of Go, 2255 B.C. - 2016 A.D.

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Sailerius
did someone say angels
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http://www.technologyreview.com/news/546066/googles-ai-masters-the-game-of-go-a-decade-earlier-than-expected/

Go, long a game that moderately skilled human players could crush AIs at, has been mastered by DeepMind, a generation sooner than expected. AI is getting crazy advanced. Here's a really interesting quote from the player who lost to it:

author=Fan Hui
In China, Go is not just a game. It is also a mirror on life. We say if you have a problem with your game, maybe you also have a problem in life.

Losing was very hard. Before I played with AlphaGo, I thought I would win. After the first game I changed my strategy and fought more, but I lost. The problem is humans sometimes make very big mistakes, because we are human. Sometimes we are tired, sometimes we so want to win the game, we have this pressure. The programme is not like this. It’s very strong and stable, it seems like a wall. For me this is a big difference. I know AlphaGo is a computer, but if no one told me, maybe I would think the player was a little strange, but a very strong player, a real person.

Of course, when I lost the game I was not happy, but all professionals will lose many games. So I lose, I study the game, and maybe I change my game. I think it’s a good thing for the future.
Vaccaria
You'd think MZ would use a dictionary for switches/variables by now?
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New ESL One Category:
Humans VS. AI

I think that the humiliation will go in a whole new level.
I challenge DeepMind to a game of hockey!
Craze
why would i heal when i could equip a morningstar
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i thought that this was going to be about a shitty release like ubisoft and ea's attempts at tetris

but this is actually cool!
Yellow Magic
Could I BE any more Chandler Bing from Friends (TM)?
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Yeah, this is pretty neat..+1 for the machine-learning crowd.

One of my Uni friends did his dissertation project on competing AI in Go and found it a nightmare. He was using decision-tree based models though, so no surprise there.
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