AlphaGo beats the world champion Lee Sedol in first of five matches

Re:AlphaGo beats the world champion Lee Sedol in first of fi... by zamalek on Wednesday March 09, 2016 @03:27AM (#11251673)

Indeed. The first time a computer defeated a human in Chess it was this[1] size (1997). In 2009 it became possible to fit a grandmaster into this[2].

> Pocket Fritz 4 won the Copa Mercosur tournament in Buenos Aires, Argentina with 9 wins and 1 draw on August 4–14, 2009. Pocket Fritz 4 searches fewer than 20,000 positions per second. This is in contrast to supercomputers such as Deep Blue that searched 200 million positions per second. Pocket Fritz 4 achieves a higher performance level than Deep Blue.[3]

The first steps are always the most inefficient. Make it work, make it right, make it fast.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Blue_%28chess_computer%29... [2]: http://cdn.slashgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/htc_touc... [3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human%E2%80%93computer_chess_m...

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Re:AlphaGo beats the world champion Lee Sedol in first of fi... by chakkop on Wednesday March 09, 2016 @04:00AM (#11251777)

GM Michael Stean lost to Cyber 176 (a mainframe 'supercomputer') in 1977 (at blitz). AFAIK this was the first time a computer defeated a GM; they began defeating IMs and experts some ten years before that. Kasparov himself lost to Fritz 2 at blitz as early as 1992.

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Re:AlphaGo beats the world champion Lee Sedol in first of fi... by Ketsuban on Wednesday March 09, 2016 @10:41AM (#11253552)

"Under tournament conditions" is the condition everyone forgets. Go AIs were competing with ranked players given handicaps of varying degrees of absurdity.

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