> someone cracked Go right before that started. Then I'd have plenty of > time to pick a new research topic." It looks like AlphaGo has > provided.
It seems [1] the smart money might be on Lee Sedol: 1. Ke Jie (world champ) – limited strength…but still amazing… Less than 5% chance against Lee Sedol now. But as it can go stronger, who knows its future… 2. Mi Yuting (world champ) – appears to be a ‘chong-duan-shao-nian (kids on the path to pros)’, ~high-level amateur. 3, Li Jie (former national team player) – appears to be pro-level. one of the games is almost perfect (for AlphaGo) On the other hand, AlphaGo got its jump in level very quickly (*), so it is hard to know if they just got lucky (i.e. with ideas things working first time) or if there is still some significant tweaking possible in these 5 months of extra development (October 2015 to March 2016). Have the informal game SGFs been uploaded anywhere? I noticed (Extended Data Table 1) they were played *after* the official game each day, so the poor pro should have been tired, but instead he won 2 of the 5 (day 1 and day 5). Was this just due to the short time limits, or did Fan Hui play a different style (e.g. more aggressively)? Darren [1]: Comment by xli199 at http://gooften.net/2016/01/28/the-future-is-here-a-professional-level-go-ai/ [2]: When did DeepMind start working on go? I suspect it might only after have been after the video games project started to wound down, which would've Feb 2015? If so, that is only 6-8 months (albeit with a fairly large team). _______________________________________________ Computer-go mailing list Computer-go@computer-go.org http://computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go
