Computer draws first blood in clash with Go grandmaster

[MowCowWhoHow III]

Source: AFP

Seoul (AFP) - A Google-developed supercomputer stunned South Korean Go grandmaster Lee Se-Dol by taking the first game of a five-match showdown between man and machine in Seoul on Wednesday.

After about 3-1/2 hours of play, Lee, one of the greatest players of the ancient board game in the modern era, resigned when it became clear the AlphaGo computer had taken an unassailable lead.

Although the computer had whitewashed European champion Fan Hui 5-0 last October, it had been expected to struggle against 33-year-old Lee, who has topped the world rankings for most of the past decade.

But its creators were bullish going into the match at the Four Seasons hotel in the South Korean capital, saying the computer, which employs algorithms that allow it to learn and improve from matchplay experience, was even stronger than when it took on Fan.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/human-vs-machine-showdown-kicks-off-seoul-043147042.html?nf=1

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[AxionExcel]

1. I, for one, do not welcome our new Google Overlord

[PoliticAverse]

2. I have switched search engines from google to duckduckgo...

( https://www.duckduckgo.com ) so I would like to see what would happen if this go champion played a duck.

[Make7]

3. The number of possible configurations of a Go board is...

... is more than the number of atoms in the universe.

This is a big fucking deal.

[Nitram]

6. True, but a lot of those configurations would never happen because they wouldn't make sense.

What makes Go different from chess is that it is really a number of chess games going on at the same time. If you get caught up in one battle you can forget the overall game and lose. You have to be aware of all the details of multiple battles without losing sight of the big picture.

[joshcryer]

4. Video of the match:

Somewhat boring but the narrator / speaker makes it interesting.

[PoliticAverse]

5. Thanks for the link. n/t

[Nitram]

7. Yes, thanks for the link. nt

[MowCowWhoHow III]

8. AlphaGo beats human world Go champion in second of 5 game match

AlphaGo beats human world Go champion in second of 5 game match
https://twitter.com/AFP/status/707847894372495360

[PoliticAverse]

9. Chess computers didn't calculate "every possible permutation of every move."

They use advanced algorithms to "prune the tree" and only look at certain moves.