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Re:Google achieves AI 'breakthrough' by beating Go champion by kitd on Thursday January 28, 2016 @06:06AM (#10987506)
I would have thought (he says casually) that some kind of genetic algorithm of introducing random moves and evaluating outcomes for success would be entirely possible, no?
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Re:Google achieves AI 'breakthrough' by beating Go champion by DanBC on Thursday January 28, 2016 @06:08AM (#10987510)
There's a large space of random moves. How many are likely to be useful?
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Re:Google achieves AI 'breakthrough' by beating Go champion by jibalt on Sunday January 31, 2016 @02:21AM (#11005615)
Do you ask that of natural evolution, too?
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