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Go has been described as the drosophila of AI. Once a program will know how to play go, we'll be able to make more general artificial intelligences. This is exa

Go has been described as the drosophila of AI. Once a program will know how to play go, we'll be able to make more general artificial intelligences. This is exactly what has happened with alphago and chatgpt. We're not repeating the same thing that happened with chess, but we are past the singularity. Recent advances in AI are lighting up the very nature of intelligence. Our memory and our brain are a machine for predicting the future. It's very similar to what recent models do. Alphagozero has rediscovered the history of chess openings in the same order as humans. We are no longer discovering simple new algorithms supported by machine advances, but architecting predictive systems based on guided learning. When we developed the algorithm for playing chess, the possibilities for generalization were limited. With these new architectures, new possibilities are appearing every day. IMHO, the predictions were true: since alphago, we've entered a new world.

YeGoblynQueenne 3y ago
>> Go has been described as the drosophila of AI. John McCarthy described chess as "the drosophila of AI": http://jmc.stanford.edu/articles/drosophila/drosophila.pdf http://jmc.stanford.edu/articles/drosophila/drosophila.pdf Who was it that described Go as the drosophila of AI?
- isaacfrond 3y ago
  It was John McCarthy, in the very paper that you cite! See section 7: As a fourth Drosophila I would like to mention the research on Computer Go.
  - reacweb 3y ago
    I finished my studies in 1993. Artificial intelligence was my major and I had done a study on programming the game of Go (a review of research state). At that time, the success of brute force for chess had caused much disillusionment in the AI world, which had hoped to see a drosophila. The transfer of this hope to the game of go was present in numerous publications. Even if it doesn't show up very well in a Google search, there are plenty of allusions in articles about programming the game of Go. Since the creation of go language, it is more difficult to find.
  - YeGoblynQueenne 3y ago
    Oh, oops. I missed that. I linked the pdf thinking it was a different text. Thanks for the correction.
bonoboTP 3y ago
There's no real knowledge transfer from Alphago to Chatgpt. They share some underlying techniques, but they sit on different branches of a tree, one is not built on top of the other.

YeGoblynQueenne 3y ago

>> Go has been described as the drosophila of AI. John McCarthy described chess as "the drosophila of AI": http://jmc.stanford.edu/articles/drosophila/drosophila.pdf http://jmc.stanford.edu/articles/drosophila/drosophila.pdf Who was it that described Go as the drosophila of AI?

isaacfrond 3y ago
It was John McCarthy, in the very paper that you cite! See section 7: As a fourth Drosophila I would like to mention the research on Computer Go.
- reacweb 3y ago
  I finished my studies in 1993. Artificial intelligence was my major and I had done a study on programming the game of Go (a review of research state). At that time, the success of brute force for chess had caused much disillusionment in the AI world, which had hoped to see a drosophila. The transfer of this hope to the game of go was present in numerous publications. Even if it doesn't show up very well in a Google search, there are plenty of allusions in articles about programming the game of Go. Since the creation of go language, it is more difficult to find.
- YeGoblynQueenne 3y ago
  Oh, oops. I missed that. I linked the pdf thinking it was a different text. Thanks for the correction.

bonoboTP 3y ago

There's no real knowledge transfer from Alphago to Chatgpt. They share some underlying techniques, but they sit on different branches of a tree, one is not built on top of the other.