By Duncan Geere
It’s over. Mankind has been defeated by the very robots it helped create. Over the past week, an artificial intelligence took on humanity’s greatest champion and returned victorious.
In this case, the battlefield was the ancient Chinese game of Go rather than a muddy meadow. But the result could end up being more consequential for humanity than any previous battle in our history.
Go For It
The AI in question is AlphaGo, a neural network that employs a combination of machine learning and tree search techniques, combined with extensive experience of both human and computer play. It was created by DeepMind, a British firm that was acquired by Google in 2014.
Go, as you’ve probably learnt if you’ve been following the story, is much harder for computers to tackle than other games like chess. The many more possible outcomes of each move make it prohibitively difficult to use traditional AI methods to win, because it takes so long to run through all the possibilities.
It’s so hard, in fact, that most AI experts thought it’d be five to ten years before computers could beat the best human players. Even AlphaGo’s creators were surprised by its victory, with DeepMind co-founder Demis Hassabis telling …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Gaming
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