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Someone Is Destroying Online Go, and Nobody Knows Who It Is
- diamondo25 10y agoHeh, breaking a winning streak by your opponents internet timing out. Off-topic: for some reason this website created lots of browser history items...
- apozem 10y agoInteresting. I wonder who else is capable of making a bot of this complexity? Like the article said, it's probably not Google. They already have AlphaGo and wouldn't try to hide it under a new account. Maybe this is a message to Google and other people training up AI programs using Go that another player is in the AI game.
- smoyer 10y agoAndrew Ng at Baidu?
- dzdt 10y agoGoogle published a pretty detailed research article about their approach a year ago. [1] A competent deep-learning team with access to a compute farm of ~1000 gpu's could be be following the google recipe. That is a nontrivial expense though, e.g. not some college kid in their dorm room. [1] http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v529/n7587/full/nature16961.html http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v529/n7587/full/nature1...
- CM30 10y agoSeems like there's evidence that this 'Master' character is actually AlphaGo: https://twitter.com/tadctw/status/816641505515302912 https://twitter.com/tadctw/status/816641505515302912 https://www.reddit.com/r/baduk/comments/5lz85o/master_alphago/ https://www.reddit.com/r/baduk/comments/5lz85o/master_alphag... Apparently it's the new version of Google's bot.
- apozem 10y agoYou are right! Surprising way to test the bot.
- mpeg 10y agoThey missed a trick by not naming it Sai.
- cableshaft 10y agoI know, right? I fully expected to click the article and see the person went by 'sai'. Guess they never watched Hikaru No Go.
- oska 10y agoChinese press article (translated into English): http://www.ecns.cn/2017/01-04/239996.shtml http://www.ecns.cn/2017/01-04/239996.shtml
- new299 10y agoSeems like a great writing prompt for some good hard Sci-Fi. My favorite thoughts so far: * We imagined alien life would make first contact through games. * Emergent artificial lifeform grows through gaming. Seems like a pretty compelling mystery anyway. I hope we get to find out the truth someday.
- jvolkman 10y agoDemis reveals that it's AlphaGo: https://twitter.com/demishassabis/status/816660463282954240 https://twitter.com/demishassabis/status/816660463282954240 I'm surprised nobody has mentioned the lowercase 'e' in the "Master" logo. Seems like a dead giveaway.
- forgottenpass 10y agoAh, good old Kotaku. Running the hot take of "Probably not X" before an authoritative source announces "Yep, X."
- xiaoma 10y agoReading the article, I thought there was a high chance it was a centaur.