AlphaGo beats Lee Sedol again in match 2 of 5

Re:AlphaGo beats Lee Sedol again in match 2 of 5 by ludamad on Thursday March 10, 2016 @04:04AM (#11258058)

At the same time, only now are people seeing how its hard for people to play Go against computers. Until AlphaGo I didn't even think computers were close.

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Re:AlphaGo beats Lee Sedol again in match 2 of 5 by hasenj on Thursday March 10, 2016 @06:14AM (#11258493)

Actually computers were already in the top 10 percentile or so. I mean top go playing bots ranked something like 5dan amateur which is very hard to achieve, so it could already defeat most human players.

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Re:AlphaGo beats Lee Sedol again in match 2 of 5 by jonknee on Thursday March 10, 2016 @10:10AM (#11259586)

From being in the top 10% to beating the top player is a gigantic difference. Until AlphaGo computers were indeed "not close" to besting humans at Go.

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Re:AlphaGo beats Lee Sedol again in match 2 of 5 by bradley_long on Thursday March 10, 2016 @04:10AM (#11258078)

I know how hard it is. I still cannot beat my 15 year-old PDA when playing chess with it. The intelligence of Lee is far higher than I can interpret.

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Re:AlphaGo beats Lee Sedol again in match 2 of 5 by mikepurvis on Thursday March 10, 2016 @04:14AM (#11258090)

Go is much harder than chess. The tree of available moves is massive and difficult to prune, as it's hard to get a reasonable heuristic about the "strength" of a given Go position.

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