geoffreyg -> AI milestone (10/19/2017 7:16:27 AM)
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A self-taught computer has become the world’s best player of Go, the fiendishly complex board game, without any input from human experts. DeepMind, Google’s artificial intelligence subsidiary in London, announced the milestone in AI less than two years after the highly publicised unveiling of AlphaGo, the first machine to beat human champions at the ancient Asian game. Details are published in the scientific journal Nature. “It learns to play simply by playing games against itself, starting from completely random play,” said Demis Hassabis, DeepMind chief executive. “In doing so, it quickly surpassed human level of play and defeated the previously published version of AlphaGo by 100 games to zero.” This is a major milestone in AI in my view - I understand it became the best player in the history of the game within some 70 hours!
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