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https://deepmind.com/blog/alphago-zero- ... g-scratch/

AlphaGo Zero: Google DeepMind supercomputer learns 3,000 years of human knowledge in 40 days : http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2017 ... 000-years/

Impressive yet again from the google team!
Unsupervised learning has a big potential in so many fields as they pointed out e.g. protien folding stuff.
Glad to be alive in this age of AI.

Has AI done something other than play games? Something that would help humanity. Maybe cheat death for some of the worlds billionaires.

Leo wrote:Has AI done something other than play games? Something that would help humanity. Maybe cheat death for some of the worlds billionaires.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-41651839

US scientists are using artificial intelligence to predict whether breast lesions identified from a biopsy will turn out to cancerous.

The machine learning system has been tested on 335 high-risk lesions, and correctly diagnosed 97% as malignant.

It reduced the number of unnecessary surgeries by more than 30%, the scientists said.

Leo wrote:Has AI done something other than play games? Something that would help humanity. Maybe cheat death for some of the worlds billionaires.

From the same link:

"Google’s secretive arm Calico, is also investigating ways to extend human life and even stop ageing altogether."

Daniel Shawul wrote:

Leo wrote:Has AI done something other than play games? Something that would help humanity. Maybe cheat death for some of the worlds billionaires.

From the same link:

"Google’s secretive arm Calico, is also investigating ways to extend human life and even stop ageing altogether."

Get back to me when they stop aging. "When its all been said and done, more will be said then done."

duncan wrote:

Leo wrote:Has AI done something other than play games? Something that would help humanity. Maybe cheat death for some of the worlds billionaires.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-41651839

US scientists are using artificial intelligence to predict whether breast lesions identified from a biopsy will turn out to cancerous.

The machine learning system has been tested on 335 high-risk lesions, and correctly diagnosed 97% as malignant.

It reduced the number of unnecessary surgeries by more than 30%, the scientists said.

I am glad to hear that. Those are the kind of things that matter, not what machine beat what human in some game, and then brag about how great they are.

"In tests, it trounced the version that defeated Lee by 100 games to nothing, and has begun to generate its own new ideas for the more than 2,000-year-old game."

Vinvin wrote:https://deepmind.com/blog/alphago-zero- ... g-scratch/

AlphaGo Zero: Google DeepMind supercomputer learns 3,000 years of human knowledge in 40 days : http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2017 ... 000-years/

I read in the article the following:
"The raw neural network, without using any lookahead, achieved an Elo rating of 3,055"

The question is how much time the computer need per position to use the raw neural network without using any lookahead and if it is something that people also can learn to do.

Vinvin wrote:https://deepmind.com/blog/alphago-zero- ... g-scratch/

AlphaGo Zero: Google DeepMind supercomputer learns 3,000 years of human knowledge in 40 days : http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2017 ... 000-years/

This sounds like it should be easier to do the same thing with chess engines.
The first Go AI was as bad as Giraffe. And Giraffe is our beginning.