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Re:Google achieves AI 'breakthrough' by beating Go champion by igravious on Wednesday January 27, 2016 @05:54PM (#10984250)
I've just replayed them as well.

You can see that in the first game the bot played really solidly without risk-taking and didn't want to lose even a few stones. You could say that it played very conservatively but solidly. It won by a tiny margin (2.5) so Fan Hui probably concluded that the bot would win every game by a similar small margin if he didn't change the style of play. I'm sure that in the first game Fan Hui was sounding the bot out for strengths and weaknesses, seeing if it knew all the tesujis and josekis and whatnot.

So from then on you see Fan Hui trying to mix it up and play more aggressively and what is very interesting is that he got outplayed in every game, even to the point of losing a big group and resigning.

So - if you play conservatively and tentatively and solidly it'll beat you by a sliver, if you try to out-think it it'll nail you. At least at the 2dan pro level.

I'd be hesitant for calling a Lee Sedol victory ahead of time. We know that in chess Kasparov beat IBM's bot initially but then IBM tweaked and within a couple of years the bot was too strong. Even though go is much harder than chess I predict that if Google lose this time and if they don't lose by much they'll win the time after that.

Re:Google achieves AI 'breakthrough' by beating Go champion by pmoriarty on Thursday January 28, 2016 @12:00AM (#10986393)
Kasparov claimed that when IBM's team won against him they cheated.
Re:Google achieves AI 'breakthrough' by beating Go champion by jibalt on Sunday January 31, 2016 @02:40AM (#11005643)
So what if he claimed it? It's not a credible claim, and in any case the current top chess programs are far stronger.
Re:Google achieves AI 'breakthrough' by beating Go champion by ygra on Thursday January 28, 2016 @02:01AM (#10986793)
Is it even possible to cheat at a perfect information game?
Re:Google achieves AI 'breakthrough' by beating Go champion by Someone on Thursday January 28, 2016 @02:49AM (#10986951)
The claim is that, in some cases, the human operators of Deep Blue intervened and played a different move than what the computer indicated (https://www.chess.com/blog/clizaw/did-ibm-cheat-kasparov)

So, yes, you can cheat in a perfect information game.

Re:Google achieves AI 'breakthrough' by beating Go champion by jibalt on Sunday January 31, 2016 @02:43AM (#11005652)
Nonsense. The operators were weaker than Deep Blue, and Kasparov's reasons for thinking there was cheating are absurd and not based on evidence.
Re:Google achieves AI 'breakthrough' by beating Go champion by jmilloy on Thursday January 28, 2016 @08:23AM (#10987964)
Here, cheated doesn't mean "cheated at chess", but rather "cheated at having the computer play Kasparov unaided"