Re:AlphaGo beats Lee Sedol again in match 2 of 5
by JulianMorrison on Thursday March 10, 2016 @10:16AM
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It's probably due to the relatively recent fact that neural networks stopped being "a 1990s fad" and became a thing again.
As for Go, I guess I would never had made a long bet against computers. But as recently as just over a decade ago, computers lost to merely competent players and people working on Go programs were pretty much saying that they didn't even know what the path forward looked like. Things improved a lot with Monte Carlo but even that stalled out. Admittedly, I don't follow this area closely, but these wins pretty much came out of nowhere.