Google achieves AI 'breakthrough' by beating Go champion

Re:Google achieves AI 'breakthrough' by beating Go champion by blackskad on Thursday January 28, 2016 @08:15AM (#10987922)

The easy thing about combining AI systems is that they don't argue. They don't try to change the opinion of the other experts. They don't try to argue with the entity that combines all opinions, every AI expert gets to say his opinion once.

With humans on the other hand, there will always be some discussion. And some human experts may be better at persuading other human experts or the combining entity.

I think it would be an interesting thing to try after they beat the number 1 player. Gather the top 10 (human) Go players and let them play as a team against AlphaGo.

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Re:Google achieves AI 'breakthrough' by beating Go champion by jibalt on Sunday January 31, 2016 @02:34AM (#11005632)

This is nonsense. To combine AI systems requires a mechanism to combine their evaluations. The most effect way would be a feedback system, where each system uses evaluations from other systems as input to possibly modify its own evaluation, with the goal being consensus. This is simply a formalization of argumentation -- which can be rational; it doesn't have to be based on personal benefit. And generalized AI systems may well some day have personal motivations, as has been discussed at length.

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Re:Google achieves AI 'breakthrough' by beating Go champion by panglott on Friday January 29, 2016 @12:01PM (#10996421)

This reminds me of the story of the Game of the Century, with Go Seigen's shinfuseki. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_go_games#.22The_Game_o...

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

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