Hal Womack 3-dan
2022-03-05 22:16:07 UTC
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/03/the-invisible-opponent/475611/
How Google's AlphaGo Beat a Go World Champion
Inside a man-versus-machine showdown
By Christopher Moyer
MARCH 28, 2016
[The number of potential legal board positions is greater than the number of atoms in the universe.
...Demis Hassabis, DeepMind’s founder
...Other Korean professionals joke that they’re envious of Lee, that they feel the DeepMind Challenge Match is the easiest million dollars a top-level player could ever make.
... As you are reading this, AlphaGo is improving. It does not take breaks. It does not have days when it just doesn’t feel like practicing, days when it can’t kick its electronic brain into focus. Day in and day out, AlphaGo has been rocketing towards superiority, and the results are staggering.
...Gu Li, one of Lee’s long-term friends and rivals, comments on Chinese TV that Lee is fighting “a very lonely battle against an invisible opponent.”
...Then comes Lee’s move 78, which will come to be called his “Hand of God” move.
...In the end, finding no moves that improve its chances of winning, it [A.I.] begins playing nonsense moves, moves that actually reduce its own points. Finally, it resigns.
...Go is constantly evolving. What’s considered optimal play changes quickly. Humans have been honing our collective knowledge of the game for more than 2,500 years—the difference is that AlphaGo can do the same thing much, much faster.]
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I, Womack, call the A.I. program "TopBot" and the game itself "turff". Lee Sedol himself subsequently retired from playing professional _baduk_.
How much of a handicap would #1 meat need to beat TopBot? When, if ever, will we find out?
How Google's AlphaGo Beat a Go World Champion
Inside a man-versus-machine showdown
By Christopher Moyer
MARCH 28, 2016
[The number of potential legal board positions is greater than the number of atoms in the universe.
...Demis Hassabis, DeepMind’s founder
...Other Korean professionals joke that they’re envious of Lee, that they feel the DeepMind Challenge Match is the easiest million dollars a top-level player could ever make.
... As you are reading this, AlphaGo is improving. It does not take breaks. It does not have days when it just doesn’t feel like practicing, days when it can’t kick its electronic brain into focus. Day in and day out, AlphaGo has been rocketing towards superiority, and the results are staggering.
...Gu Li, one of Lee’s long-term friends and rivals, comments on Chinese TV that Lee is fighting “a very lonely battle against an invisible opponent.”
...Then comes Lee’s move 78, which will come to be called his “Hand of God” move.
...In the end, finding no moves that improve its chances of winning, it [A.I.] begins playing nonsense moves, moves that actually reduce its own points. Finally, it resigns.
...Go is constantly evolving. What’s considered optimal play changes quickly. Humans have been honing our collective knowledge of the game for more than 2,500 years—the difference is that AlphaGo can do the same thing much, much faster.]
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I, Womack, call the A.I. program "TopBot" and the game itself "turff". Lee Sedol himself subsequently retired from playing professional _baduk_.
How much of a handicap would #1 meat need to beat TopBot? When, if ever, will we find out?