The Overlords are coming. This machine is not specifically designed to play Go. Interesting. Read the “news” article.
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A computer program that can defeat a professional human player at the classic strategy game Go is reported in this week’s Nature. Go has been regarded as an outstanding ‘grand challenge’ for artificial intelligence owing to its large search space and the difficulty of evaluating board positions and moves. The findings provide hope that human-level performance could potentially be achieved in other seemingly intractable artificial intelligence domains.
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