[FRIAM] AI advance

[Vladimyr Burachynsky]

So there are at least three by your count, and that was only a shallow
dredge of the pond.

I obtained an early version of a computer game and frittered away a lot of
hours playing
that maniacal coffee maker.  I found the flaw that the writer relied upon
and wiped out the game every time. That style of playing against a 
stupid piece of code was horrible but only worked against a machine.

The flaw was that it made decisions on perceived values. So it was easy to
lead it into disaster. I  had never seen a human play in that manner
nor may that even be possible. Indeed I was able to annihilate it every
game, wipe it off the board. This is considered very offensive and
humiliating by Oriental Standards. But then I reminded my teachers that
Cossacks were never noted for their Table Manners.

Talk about a group of Intense Nicotine Addicts back then...  

Only a confirmed Go player could breathe that atmosphere. Though I wonder
why Hawking is so afraid of this
machine when it can humble the best of us. Just make the board much larger.
At some point we will smell insulation burning.

vib

-----Original Message-----
From: Friam [mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com] On Behalf Of Steven A Smith
Sent: January-30-17 9:54 PM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] AI advance

Vlad -

  I am the weakest of GO players, in spite of having considered the problem
of trying to use Gosper's memoisation as a mode of associative memory
problem solving.  Cody the M00se Dooderson has beat me every time we have
played I think.  Weak, weak, weak!

But I do find it fascinating.

  - Steve


On 1/30/17 8:07 PM, Vladimyr Burachynsky wrote:
> To Joseph Spinden,
>
> The article is old and I wonder if you play the game.
> I ran a Go club at the University of Manitoba and can tell you strange 
> stories about a time before Hassabis.
>
> I swear I never won a game in 5 years but I kept playing anyway.
> I guess I am bloody minded. Eventually I discovered that my handicap 
> was being reduced and suspect I was close to 1 Dan at the time. I was 
> told that was harder than a Ph.D. So I went for the degree and 
> sloughed off the game.
>
> There should be a few players in the congregation, let them speak up.
> vib
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Friam [mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com] On Behalf Of Joseph 
> Spinden
> Sent: January-28-17 8:32 AM
> To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
> Subject: [FRIAM] AI advance
>
> Of interest to some:
>
> https://www.wired.com/2016/01/in-a-huge-breakthrough-googles-ai-beats-
> a-top-
> player-at-the-game-of-go
>
> -JS
>
>
>
>
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