AI plays go

Originally posted by ptobler
The best human Go player of the last 30 years is down 2-0 to the robot...

3 - 0

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-35785875

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Nevertheless the important part of this story is that an AI has reached "top human player"
level at this game.

Whether the AI is currently absolutely better than the best ever Go player isn't really
important for anything other then bragging rights.

Originally posted by twhitehead
The game of go is not the last bastion of human intelligence. Not by a long shot.

I have not yet seen a computer which is able to change a baby's diaper.

Originally posted by sonhouse
The brute force method that works well against chess players is probably a decade away from working against the top levels of Go or more.

Although I have not verified this claim, it does give an idea as to the impossibility of a pure brute force method:

Looking just 15 black and white stones ahead involves more possible outcomes than there are atoms in the universe.

http://theconversation.com/ai-has-beaten-us-at-go-so-what-next-for-humanity-55945

In reality we don't know the actual size of the universe, but what is important is the size of the largest storage systems on earth in the foreseeable future.

Originally posted by twhitehead
Although I have not verified this claim, it does give an idea as to the impossibility of a pure brute force method:

Looking just 15 black and white stones ahead involves more possible outcomes than there are atoms in the universe.

http://theconversation.com/ai-has-beaten-us-at-go-so-what-next-for-humanity-55945

In reality we don't know ...[text shortened]... what is important is the size of the largest storage systems on earth in the foreseeable future.

Lee wins game 4!

Originally posted by moonbus
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-35420579

Yet another hurdle passed.

I'll find AI impressive when it can produce a novel as great as Anna Karenina or an opera as fine as The Marriage of Figaro!

Originally posted by Teinosuke
I'll find AI impressive when it can produce a novel as great as Anna Karenina or an opera as fine as The Marriage of Figaro!

One day this will happen; but not anytime soon.
First an AI singularity (more conventionally called a "technological singularity" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity ) needs to and will happen. With my AI expertise, I plan to be the one that makes it happen in about ~10 years time, well after I publish my book and assuming I can get sufficient funding from somewhere which is by far the biggest hole in my current plan. I have already made an extremely elaborate ~10 year plan (but still with that big hole ) that includes very extensive but still far-from-complete details of the formulated 'logic', that includes what I call 'tie logic' which is what my current book is going to be about and which I am currently researching, that is to be programmed into my first AI.

Originally posted by Teinosuke
I'll find AI impressive when it can produce a novel as great as Anna Karenina or an opera as fine as The Marriage of Figaro!

You do know that AI's can already compose music that people cannot differentiate from
human composed music?

Humans Need Not Apply by CGP Grey
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Here is an interesting postscript to the limitations of AI:

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-35890188