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> Many boldly and confidently predicted we wouldn't see a computer beat the Go world champion in our lifetimes. Sadly as I write this my uncle and personal her
by maaku 11y ago
> Many boldly and confidently predicted we wouldn't see a computer beat the Go world champion in our lifetimes.
Sadly as I write this my uncle and personal hero who spent 17 years of his life working towards a Ph.D. on abstraction hierarchies for use in Go artificial intelligence, has been moved into hospice care. I'm just glad that in the few days that are left he has a chance to see this happen, even if it is not the good old-fashioned approach he took.
[1] He recently started rewriting the continuation of this research in golang, available on Github: https://github.com/Ken1JF/ah https://github.com/Ken1JF/ah
- new299 11y agoThanks for the link. I started reading his thesis. While AlphaGo is obviously exciting, it seems like your uncles approach could help us better understand how humans play go which seems hugely valuable. I look forward to exploring his thesis further.
- jakub_h 11y ago> This project is the sixth attempt to implement the model: Finally, the sixth attempt is written in the right language! Now it will succeed for sure.