Monday, 5 June 2017

MACHINE BEATS WORLD'S NUMBER ONE IN A MATCH

                                           
       



Google DeepMind’s Go-playing AI has defeated Ke Jie, the world’s number one player, in the first of three games played in Wuzhen, China.The AI won by just half a point – the smallest possible margin of victory – in a match that lasted four hours and fifteen minutes.

Though the scoreline looks close, AlphaGo was in the lead from relatively early on in the game. Since the AI favours moves that are more likely to guarantee victory, it doesn’t usually trounce its opponents.In March last year, AlphaGo beat Lee Sedol, one of the world’s top Go players, winning four out of five matches.

The AI challenged more Go masters in January 2017, winning a series of 50 online games including two victories against Ke Jie.
Ke had closely studied AlphaGo’s strategy and tried to use some of the AI’s unconventional tactics against it during his match, opening the game with a couple of moves that are seldom used by human players.

No weakness
The Go-playing bot was was developed by DeepMind, a London-based artificial intelligence startup acquired by Google in 2014. Initially trained on a database of 30 million moves taken from games played by human experts, AlphaGo then finessed its strategy by playing thousands of games against itself.But scary machines aren't going to replace humans entirely just yet. As it stands, computer systems can't replicate things like human emotions and imagination.

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