stay a little random Oh good. I've been waiting for someone
(well, some predictive mechanism) to beat Go. It's still not an
all-purpose solution yet - it required several systems cobbled
together for it to work, but, it succeeded in its task at
beating some Go champions consistently. Go is interesting
because the "space of possible moves" is huge compared to chess,
so it's kinda impractical to have it try random moves and see
what's successful. I mean that works, but it would take a long
time. So, they put together two layers of processes it seems. At
one level it tries to predict potential outcomes using the whole
board, and at another level it predicts the best next possible
moves. So, out to in + in to out at the same time: big picture
fuzzy pattern matching combined with move-by-move logic. It's
customized for the game of course but took advantage of the same
algorithms used by Google images that predicted eyes in
everything.
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/546066/googles-ai-masters-the-game-of-go-a-decade-earlier-than-expected/
It's an achievement and a good one. Don't worry about mind
reading though; that's only true if you stay p red i k t a
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