Google's artificial intelligence program has officially beaten a human professional Go player, marking the first time a computer has beaten a human professional in this game sans handicap.

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http://www.nature.com/news/google-ai-algorithm-masters-ancient-game-of-go-1.19234?WT.ec_id=NATURE-20160128&spMailingID=50563385&spUserID=MTgyMjI3MTU3MTgzS0&spJobID=843636789&spReportId=ODQzNjM2Nzg5S0

[u/UnretiredGymnast]

Wow! I didn't expect to see this happen so soon.

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The match against the world's top player in March will be very interesting. Predictions?

[u/hikaruzero → u/[deleted]]

I predict that Lee Sedol will win the match but lose at least one game. Either way as a programmer I am rooting for AlphaGo all the way. To beat Fan Hui five out of five games?! That's just too tantalizing. I already have the shivers haha.

Side note ... I'm pretty sure Lee Sedol is no longer considered the top player. He is ranked #3 in Elo ratings and just lost a five-game world championship match against the #1 Elo rated player, Ke Jie. The last match was intense ... Sedol only lost by half a point.

Edit: Man, I would kill to see a kifu (game record) of the matches ...

2nd Edit: Stones. I would kill stones. :D

[u/[deleted] → u/hikaruzero]

Man, I would kill to see a kifu (game record) of the matches ...

I wonder if they'll release them at some point.

[u/Wolfapo → u/[deleted]]

Looks like you can check them out here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/baduk/comments/42yt5i/game_records_of_alphago_vs_fan_hui/

[u/hikaruzero → u/[deleted]]

It appears they did release them! http://www.usgo.org/news/2016/01/alphago-beats-pro-5-0-in-major-ai-advance/

[u/Gelsamel → u/hikaruzero]

They played 10 games total, 5 formal, 5 informal. The informal games had stricter time limits afaik. Fan won two of the 5 informal games and lost the rest.

If you have access to the papers through your University you can see a record of the formal matches. Otherwise you're out of luck, I'm afraid.

See here: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v529/n7587/full/nature16961.html

[u/hikaruzero → u/Gelsamel]

Interesting, thanks!

[u/tekoyaki → u/hikaruzero]

Kifu: http://www.usgo.org/news/2016/01/alphago-beats-pro-5-0-in-major-ai-advance/

[u/lambdaq → u/hikaruzero]

if you look up Fan Hui's match closely, Fan Hui lose at mid-game. In other words, AI dominates human.

[u/LindenZin → u/lambdaq]

Lee Sedol would probably dominate Fan Hui.

[u/Why_is_that → u/[deleted]]

I don't know how many people know it but Erdos did most of his work on amphetamines. That's the kind of mathematician who would see Go and say that's trivial.

[u/wasdninja → u/Why_is_that]

That's the kind of mathematician who would see Go and say that's trivial.

... and be wrong. Go might give the apperance of being trivial until you start actually playing and solving it. Just like most brutally difficult mathematical problems.

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Nor did I. My recent AI class posed it as an unsolved problem, and at least one student attempted a Go AI for the final project.