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posted by on Wednesday May 31 2017, @12:32AM   Printer-friendly
from the heavyweight-champion dept.

To say that AlphaGo had a great run in the competitive Go scene would be an understatement: it has just defeated the world's number 1 Go player, Ke Jie, in a three-part match. Now that it has nothing left to prove, the AI is hanging up its boots and leaving the world of competitive Go behind. AlphaGo's developers from Google-owned DeepMind will now focus on creating advanced general algorithms to help scientists find elusive cures for diseases, conjure up a way to dramatically reduce energy consumption and invent new revolutionary materials.

Before they leave Go behind completely, though, they plan to publish one more paper later this year to reveal how they tweaked the AI to prepare it for the matches against Ke Jie. They're also developing a tool that would show how AlphaGo would respond to a particular situation on the Go board with help from the world's number one player.

Source: ArsTechnica


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  • (Score: 2) by Kilo110 on Wednesday May 31 2017, @03:20AM (1 child)

    by Kilo110 (2853) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday May 31 2017, @03:20AM (#518066)

    "Google-owned DeepMind will now focus on creating advanced general algorithms to help scientists find elusive cures for diseases, conjure up a way to dramatically reduce energy consumption and invent new revolutionary materials."

    And most importantly... find even more creepy ways to data mine their users' data.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 31 2017, @02:34PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 31 2017, @02:34PM (#518304)

    Or maybe they'll use it to solve this problem. [xkcd.com] (See the bottom panels)