Death of Giraffe, but hopefully not ML in chess!

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Re: Death of Giraffe, but hopefully not ML in chess!

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duncan wrote:do you have hopes it will improve on go

from wiki

Currently the company's focus is on publishing research on computer systems that are able to play games, and developing these systems, ranging from strategy games such as Go[25] to arcade games




Couldn't talk about this till now. But the answer is yes :).

http://deepmind.com/alpha-go.html
Disclosure: I work for DeepMind on the AlphaZero project, but everything I say here is personal opinion and does not reflect the views of DeepMind / Alphabet.
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Re: Death of Giraffe, but hopefully not ML in chess!

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matthewlai wrote:
duncan wrote:do you have hopes it will improve on go

from wiki

Currently the company's focus is on publishing research on computer systems that are able to play games, and developing these systems, ranging from strategy games such as Go[25] to arcade games



Couldn't talk about this till now. But the answer is yes :).

http://deepmind.com/alpha-go.html
Fantastic news Matthew!

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Re: Death of Giraffe, but hopefully not ML in chess!

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Google DeepMind cyber-brain cracks tough AI challenge: Beating a top Go board-game player http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/01/27 ... an_master/

aah sorry did not see it had already been posted.
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