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Google AI beats a pro at the game of Go
- awwducks 11y agoNote that the games were played even and the results were terrifyingly dominant - 5-0.
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- marze 11y agoAny ideas on the computing requirements at run time? Amazing and impressive!
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- devy 11y agoFYI, Fan Hui, the current European Go champion that Google DeepMind defeated, is ONLY a 2nd Dan Go player. The Highest Dan ranking in Go is 9th Dan! [1] [1]: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_Hui https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_Hui
- zdean 11y agoPut that into perspective for us...if a 2nd Dan player competed against a 9th Dan 100 times, what would be the expected outcome?
- 2muchcoffeeman 11y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_ranks_and_ratings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_ranks_and_ratings
- ricefield 11y agoProbably better to link here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_professional#Discrepancies_among_professionals https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_professional#Discrepancies_... The difference between an amateur 2D and 9D is not the same as the difference between a professional 2P and 9P.
- sciurus 11y agoThis is being discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10981679 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10981679
- badri 11y agoLink to the paper mentioned in the article: https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-data/assets/papers/deepmind-mastering-go.pdf https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-data/assets/papers/d...
- eccstartup 11y agoFacebook wants to beat Google. Mark thinks he can challenge the language Go first. Then his research team begins by studying a demo -- game Go.