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 maaku on Wednesday March 09, 2016 @05:04PM (#11256046)

> Many boldly and confidently predicted we wouldn't see a computer beat the Go world champion in our lifetimes.

Sadly as I write this my uncle and personal hero who spent 17 years of his life working towards a Ph.D. on abstraction hierarchies for use in Go artificial intelligence, has been moved into hospice care. I'm just glad that in the few days that are left he has a chance to see this happen, even if it is not the good old-fashioned approach he took.

[1] He recently started rewriting the continuation of this research in golang, available on Github: https://github.com/Ken1JF/ah

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Re:AlphaGo beats the world champion Lee Sedol in first of fi... by new299 on Thursday March 10, 2016 @09:16AM (#11259287)

Thanks for the link. I started reading his thesis. While AlphaGo is obviously exciting, it seems like your uncles approach could help us better understand how humans play go which seems hugely valuable. I look forward to exploring his thesis further.

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Re:AlphaGo beats the world champion Lee Sedol in first of fi... by jakub_h on Saturday March 12, 2016 @09:15AM (#11272944)

> This project is the sixth attempt to implement the model:

Finally, the sixth attempt is written in the right language! Now it will succeed for sure.

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