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AlphaGo was a serious milestone and message to the public that AI has broken another barrier. http://www.nytimes.com/1997/07/29/science/to-test-a-powerful-comp
by kowdermeister 10y ago
AlphaGo was a serious milestone and message to the public that AI has broken another barrier.
http://www.nytimes.com/1997/07/29/science/to-test-a-powerful-computer-play-an-ancient-game.html?pagewanted=all http://www.nytimes.com/1997/07/29/science/to-test-a-powerful...
In 1997 this was the general thinking about it: ''It may be a hundred years before a computer beats humans at Go -- maybe even longer,'' said Dr. Piet Hut, an astrophysicist at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton
- nl 10y agoI agree it was an impressive feat. I don't agree that it was clear it was as far off as that: I believe that a world-champion-level Go machine can be built within 10 years, based on the same method of intensive analysis—brute force, basically—that Deep Blue employed for chess -- Feng-Hsiung Hsu, 2007, http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/cracking-go http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/cracking-go