Google reveals secret test of AI bot to beat top Go players

Re:Google reveals secret test of AI bot to beat top Go players by Retric on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @09:58PM (#13324345)

Perfect play is likely inhumanly aggressive on blacks part part and white making zero moves. Compared to that this is very human style of gameplay simply based on a different strategy culture as it where.

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Re:Google reveals secret test of AI bot to beat top Go players by tasuki on Thursday January 05, 2017 @04:46AM (#13325942)

I don't see why perfect black play should be any more aggressive than perfect white play. Care to elaborate?

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Re:Google reveals secret test of AI bot to beat top Go players by Retric on Thursday January 05, 2017 @07:56AM (#13326735)

Black moves first, on a 3x3 and 5x5 both end up 100% black with any white piece being captured. Many other board shapes don't but Go is played on a 19 x 19 board. We don't know about 9x9 or even 7x7 so the pattern is hardly set in stone. Still it seems likely.

Now, with a perfect white play there may be moves an imperfect black player makes which causes white to attack. But, perfect play on both sides probably means any white stone gets captured so white plays zero stones.

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Re:Google reveals secret test of AI bot to beat top Go players by tasuki on Saturday January 07, 2017 @04:20AM (#13343150)

> Black moves first, on a 3x3 and 5x5 both end up 100% black with any white piece being captured.

That is true. The same, however, doesn't hold for larger boards (such as 19x19).

> But, perfect play on both sides probably means any white stone gets captured so white plays zero stones.

For boards larger than the small boards you mentioned above, this is completely untrue.

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