Alpha Go defeats human champion in board game

[Gregor Eisenhorn]

Well, as the title indicates shit just got real with AI.

AlphaGo (an AI) defeated Lee Se-Dol (a South Korean professional Go player of 9-dan rank [which is the highest possible btw]) today, in the first of 5 matches to test whether it can compete against a human player. Go (the name of the board game) is famous for having an extremely high amount of possible board states, thus being much more difficult than, say, chess for a machine to "play". Overall, the game was very close and ended in a very late-game (<10 min on AlphaGo's clock) concession from Lee. A lot of people think his next game will be much easier (having seen the software in action/gauged its decision-making skills), however, past trials have shown that if a program can win ONCE against a Pro, it usually takes the series in a 5-0 sweep. You can watch the upcoming games on DeepMind's YouTube channel.

 

[Gregor Eisenhorn]

Why is this significant:
first off I'm pretty hyped about AI and the future in the next 10 years or so, so bear with me.

Chess playing machines if you were to call them that, are algorithm based, which means they are built especially for playing chess. This bad boy AlphaGo (even the name has alpha in it) was built to LEARN to play this board game, which as stated before is apparently extremly difficult to master as opposed to chess.

So this brings us to the conclusion that AI is in fact very developed and complex.

Milestone in human engineering? Maybe this will pave the way for future AI based machines.

 

[Gregor Eisenhorn]

Or of course it leads to this: then we're proper fucked.

 

[tyler.durden]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_DeepMind

Google DeepMind is a British artificial intelligence company founded in 2010 as DeepMind Technologies.

History
2010 to 2014
In 2010 the start-up was founded by Demis Hassabis, Shane Legg and Mustafa Suleyman.[6][7] Hassabis and Legg first met at University College London's Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit.[8]

Since then major venture capital firms Horizons Ventures and Founders Fund have invested in the company,[9] as well as entrepreneurs Scott Banister[10] and Elon Musk.[11] Jaan Tallinn was an early investor and an advisor to the company.[12] In 2014, DeepMind received the "Company of the Year" award by Cambridge Computer Laboratory.[13]



We have the developers' names. Simple searches will reveal their addresses. We cannot afford to take any chances. I think you know what needs to be done...