What we learned in Seoul with AlphaGo

Re:What we learned in Seoul with AlphaGo by hluska on Thursday March 17, 2016 @01:07AM (#11302691)

I'm not trying to troll you here, but have you ever actually played Go?? Go is so complex that the word 'complex' doesn't even begin to cover it. It's a game that requires equal parts creativity and logic. The sheer number of options absolutely dwarf anything else out there.

This achievement will be useful in a myriad of obvious applications. And, it is one of the greatest engineering feats that I have been alive to witness.

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Re:What we learned in Seoul with AlphaGo by colllectorof on Thursday March 17, 2016 @07:32PM (#11308547)

I have played Go and I understand that it is a complex and nuanced game. However, I also understand that it's a game very heavily based on patterns and pattern-matching.

Have you read the research paper and seen how much of AlphaGo's architecture was designed around the specifics of Go gameplay? (Including a set of handcrafted Go-specific training features.)

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