Rage against the machine - AlphaGo loses a round

[Bernard Murphy]

The reigning Go champion just beat the Google game demonstrating unsurprisingly (to me) that AI has way to go before superseding human intelligence even in this narrow domain:

Striking back against the machine: Korean Go player beats Google program
| Reuters

 

[Daniel Nenni]

deja vu of the chess games in the early 1980s. Once you learned their weakness (being piece centric for example) you could beat the program on a regular basis. Until the next revision of the game came out of course. Fortunately or unfortunately the AI programs can learn weaknesses faster than humans. AI (LISP) was all the rage during my undergrad days, it is nice to see it go mainstream.

 

[Daniel Nenni]

The gentlemen behind Google DeepMind:

Google DeepMind's top 21 scientists - Business Insider

This was a $500M acquisition with a stipulation that Google establish an AI Ethics board. Should we be concerned about something here?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_DeepMind#cite_note-23

 

[Daniel Payne]

Google should go back and read what Isaac Asimov wrote back in 1942 and modify "robot" with "AI":

1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2. A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.[SUP][1][/SUP]

 

[Staf_Verhaegen]

deja vu of the chess games in the early 1980s. Once you learned their weakness (being piece centric for example) you could beat the program on a regular basis. Until the next revision of the game came out of course. Fortunately or unfortunately the AI programs can learn weaknesses faster than humans. AI (LISP) was all the rage during my undergrad days, it is nice to see it go mainstream.

One of the conditions of the match was that AlphaGo software was not allowed to change during the tournament but of course the human player is allowed to analyse the matches and change tactic. No human is currently able to beat computers in chess (thanks to Moore's law) and that will also be the case in the near future for Go. I think it is better to use these intelligent tools than trying to deny it.

 

[Bernard Murphy]

One of the conditions of the match was that AlphaGo software was not allowed to change during the tournament but of course the human player is allowed to analyse the matches and change tactic. No human is currently able to beat computers in chess (thanks to Moore's law) and that will also be the case in the near future for Go. I think it is better to use these intelligent tools than trying to deny it.

My reason for posting was a little tongue-in-cheek - hence the title. We rage against the machine but that does not mean we will succeed