Another Goal Reached Ahead of Estimates

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SolarEagle Guru Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: by the beach in Florida Posts: 33392 Good Answers: 1817	Another Goal Reached Ahead of Estimates 01/27/2016 7:15 PM
	AI is starting to show what's possible....and where this is headed "Computers have slowly started to encroach on activities we previously believed only the brilliantly sophisticated human brain could handle. IBM's Deep Blue supercomputer beat Grand Master Garry Kasparov at chess in 1997, and in 2011 IBM's Watson beat former human winners at the quiz game Jeopardy. But the ancient board game Go has long been one of the major goals of artificial intelligence research. It's understood to be one of the most difficult games for computers to handle due to the sheer number of possible moves a player can make at any given point. Until now, that is. Researchers at Google DeepMind, the Alphabet-owned artificial intelligence research company, announced today that it had created an artificial intelligence system that has beat a professional Go player at the game. The company's research was published in the scientific journal Nature." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-dKXOlsf98 http://qz.com/603313/googles-ai-just-cracked-the-game-that-supposedly-no-computer-could-beat/ __________________ All living things seek to control their own destiny....this is the purpose of life
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Anonymous Hero Guru Join Date: May 2006 Location: The 'Space Coast', USA Posts: 11119 Good Answers: 918	#1 Re: Another Goal Reached Ahead of Estimates 01/27/2016 7:58 PM
	Yes, considering a board with 19 lines horizontally and 19 lines vertically with only black and white stones make up more possible combinations than there are atoms in the universe. Brute force is not a very effective option for a computer. We are only at the cusp of the AI adventure.
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lyn Guru Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 42355 Good Answers: 1693	#2 In reply to #1 Re: Another Goal Reached Ahead of Estimates 01/27/2016 9:22 PM
	10⁷⁶¹
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Anonymous Hero Guru Join Date: May 2006 Location: The 'Space Coast', USA Posts: 11119 Good Answers: 918	#3 In reply to #2 Re: Another Goal Reached Ahead of Estimates 01/27/2016 9:42 PM
	Ah, who's counting!
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Tornado Guru Join Date: May 2009 Location: Richland, WA, USA Posts: 21017 Good Answers: 795	#4 In reply to #2 Re: Another Goal Reached Ahead of Estimates 01/28/2016 1:48 AM
	I don't know how good the Windows calculator is with really large numbers, but it shows (19²)! ~~1.44 x 10⁷⁶⁸. In those realms, a ten-million factor probably doesn't mean much. (After all, compared to 14 megagoogols!) __________________ In vino veritas; in cervisia carmen; in aqua E. coli.
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lyn Guru Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 42355 Good Answers: 1693	#6 In reply to #4 Re: Another Goal Reached Ahead of Estimates 01/28/2016 8:53 AM
	Knowing nothing at all about the game, I Googled it just to see what it was. That's where I found the number.
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Anonymous Hero Guru Join Date: May 2006 Location: The 'Space Coast', USA Posts: 11119 Good Answers: 918	#7 In reply to #6 Re: Another Goal Reached Ahead of Estimates 01/28/2016 12:33 PM
	I was taught it while I was a teen. Got reasonably good, but nowhere near the competence of some people I played in Singapore. Got my clock cleaned.
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Rixter Guru Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: About 4000 miles from the center of the earth (+/-100 mi) Posts: 9913 Good Answers: 1141	#5 Re: Another Goal Reached Ahead of Estimates 01/28/2016 6:31 AM
	If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee -- that will do them in. Bradley's Bromide
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