Seeing Alphazero in perspective ...

[pilgrimdan]

https://www.forbes.com/sites/mariyayao/ ... d4589465db

Top 10 AI achievements in 2017 ...

1. DeepMind’s AlphaZero Clobbered The Top AI Champions In Go, Shogi, And Chess

2. OpenAI’s Universe Gained Traction With High-Profile Partners

3. Sonnet & Tensorflow Eager Joined Their Fellow Open-Source Frameworks

4. Facebook & Microsoft Joined Forces To Enable AI Framework Interoperability

5. Unity Enabled Developers To Easily Build Intelligent Agents In Games

6. Machine Learning As A Service (MLAAS) Platforms Sprout Up Everywhere

7. The Gan Zoo Continued To Grow

8. Who Needs Recurrence Or Convolution When You Have Attention?

9. AutoML Simplified The Lives Of Data Scientists & Machine Learning Engineers

10. Hinton Declared Backprop Dead, Finally Dropped His Capsule Networks

11. Quantum & Optical Computing Entered The AI Hardware Wars

12. Ethics & Fairness Of ML Systems Took Center Stage

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Cathy O’Neil, author of Weapons of Math Destruction, called out the need to drop our blind faith in big data...

[Toadofsky]

Huh, I thought Forbes was a credible source.