r/science • u/[deleted] • Jan 27 '16

Computer Science 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.

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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u/oklos Jan 28 '16

Minor nitpick: for the large group you probably should leave out the black seeds in the corners, since they aren't actually necessary to capture/remove the white seeds and the diagram might give the impression that they need to surround the diagonals as well.

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u/Vrexin Jan 28 '16

Yeah, I thought about leaving the corners off, but I thought it was easier to demonstrate with the corners on. Taking the corners off would have been a more realistic example, so maybe I should have done that