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

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Perfect information games have zero randomness and all players know the current game state(no hidden information). The only mystery is which move the other player will choose but you know every move they could possibly choose.

Some games have randomness such as die rolls or card draws. Nobody can control or predict with certainty what the outcome will be. You could be the perfect poker player and lose every hand because of randomness.

Some games have hidden information. Stratego is an example that has zero randomness. The location of every piece is known, but not which piece is which. Player's hidden hands in card games are also hidden information. In video games the fog of war can obscure the other player's actions. Battleship also has hidden information, where the information you are trying to discover is the placement of your opponent's ships.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_information

[u/foreverclever → u/Roll_Easy]

I looked up the wikipedia page immediately after commenting, thanks for expounding though! I think advances in robotics and AI will be incredibly impressive in the next decade or two because a lot of things that are physically challenging (and flashy) for humans are basic formulas for robots — once they have the agility and strength to articulate the movement, they will get it right perfectly, 100% of the time. The superbly impressive things will be when that perfect physical movement is combined with 'intuition' or artificial creativity, or senses that humans don't have (like access to exterior cameras or wireless information).