Paweł Morawiecki demands of DM: "would we see something similar from your point of view? It's been a month since the match, .. Unfortunately, nothing has been given :-("
Go is purportedly a good way of acquiring the skill of patience - but perhaps that rosy-eyed claim may not be entirely justified. interesting to see Lee's understandable misconceptions (shared by other pro player commentators) about what alpha does and doesn't like, based purely on her playing behaviour. at the risk of belabouring the obvious, and not wishing to presume to speak on their behalf, DM team reps have already offerred numerous explanations of alpha's view of the match in various press conferences and tweets and have outlined their company's future plans in several youtube videos and answered lots of questions about her and them from journalists and other audience members (some of which may have been planted questions). for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0X-NdPtFKq0 if you want to see the current picture in one Readers' Digest synopsis, you could assign your own neural net the task of transcribing and collating all the relevant bits and pieces of publicly available information and blog your own essay on it. PS i had a go at joining some of the dots a while ago, in a comment on AGA's youtube commentary on game 3, reproduced below: This message is written to be intelligible to young children about how Alphago's mind works. First, let's see how your own mind works, so we can compare the two. Imagine a schoolyard of tweeting children passing little messages around from hand to hand. Each individual tweets to several friends, who in turn tweet to others. Tweets flow around the yard like currents flow around the sea, which a bird's-eye view through a "tweet camera" could see like water flowing in streams, pools and rivers. Because of gravity, real water only flows downhill, but tweet water can flow round and round in circles and spirals and all kinds of shapes. Your brain is a schoolyard of tweeting neurons, each of which can have hundreds or thousands of hands for receiving tweets from others and passing on tweets of its own. A bird's-eye view of all this activity seen through the lens of a magnetic resonance imaging camera produces a video that looks like a city seen at night from high above, with rivers of car headlights flowing around and building lights twinkling on and off, as wonderfully filmed in timelapse in the cinematic masterpiece "Koyaanisqatsi". The messages that neurons tweet to each other are physically embodied in concentrations of neurotransmitters with fancy names like acetocholine and dopamine, but their meanings are simple yells: the louder one neuron yells to another, the more likely the other will hear it. Neurons have two different kinds of receiving hands, some that are turned on by yells, and some that are turned off. Each neuron receives yells from hundreds, sometimes thousands, of others at a time. Chemical yells in synapses make waves of ionisations in receiving hands called dendrites, which flow up to the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the neuron, which is called the axon hillock because from the outside it looks like a lump in your arm. Like all CEOs, the axon hillock doesn't do much, because all the hard work is done by others. All a CEO has to do is every now and then decide between a shortlist of choices provided by his advisors, and then tell other people what to do, and so on down the line until you get to the true value-adders of any corporation or civilisation, the manual labourers such as computer programmers, bricklayers, and dustmen. All a neuron's CEO has to do is every now and then do a simple sum of all the 'on' yells minus all the 'off' yells and see whether that sum is big enough to tickle its fancy. If it does, it lights up an electrochemical wave down its trunk (its axon), which branches out to its numerous tweet-sending hands (called axon terminals), which pass its tweet onto those of its neighbours that it talks to. A neuron's tweet is just one letter long. It's either on, or it's off. It's binary, just like the signals flowing around inside a digital computer. Neurobiologists call the tweet an "axon spike all or nothing response" because they noticed that its intensity and frequency does not change from one tweet to another - it's either there, or it's not there.. Now, you may think that just going tweet or not isn't enough to say anything much, but Samuel Morse knew better, because any letter or number can be represented as a string of on-or-off tweets (called "bits" in IT jargon, short for "binary digit"). The code Morse devised for flashing messages from one ship to another enabled ship captains to coordinate their activities and fight battles as a team. Sending messages is one thing, but being able to understand them is quite another. It's easy to see how messages can be written in binary, but what about figuring out their meanings? And deciding what to do about them? How does your brain think? And how do you feel? If you read back a little bit, you will see that i have already told you the answer to all these deep philosphical and spiritual questions. Remember the neuron CEO? It makes a decision; it chooses between 'yes' and 'no' - between 'on' and 'off'. Put a few building bricks together in the right way and you get a house. Or a car. Or a computer. That's right, your brain is a biological digital computer made of billions of neuron CEOs and their assistant dendrites and axopn terminals, assisted by manual workers like glial cells which keep their bosses well fed and clean. And so, finally, we come to Alphago. She isn't a biological digital computer, nor is she just an adding machine like a pocket calculator. Or is she? Alpha has lots of neurons too; they're a bit different from biological neurons but not all that different, in terms of the function they perform. They have their own electronic equivalent of tweet receving and sending hands and their own equivalent of the neuron CEO which does a pretty similar job - because its function was inspired by the function of the biological neurons that are found in all animals with brains, including sea slugs and starfish. But that's where the similarity ends, for whereas biological neurons can grow and shrink, and live and die, and make new friends and lose old ones, artificial neurons are more like soldiers lined up in rows that only do what they're told to do when they're told to do it. Nevertheless, they can be told to learn, to change their CEOs' decisonmaking behaviours. If all goes well, CEOs are given a bonus, but if things go badly, they are turned down - if only that happened to the human CEOs that robbed the poor of their savings in 1929 and 2008 and did all sorts of other awful things like starting and financing wars! But that''s another story.... One drop in the ocean doesn't make much difference, and changing one CEO's mind doesn't make much difference. But an ocean is made of drops, so if you change a lot of them, you change the way the whole thing works. Alpha's neurons do a pretty good job of guessing what is a good move, but because you can't really know what's truly good or bad until you try it out, Alpha has another trick up her sleeve: she guesses what the future will bring by rolling dice. Yes, you heard it right - she just guesses! She follows her guesses all the way to the end of the game, sees who won, and then sends that information back down the line (actually, back down the tree of lines, which branches at every move) to improve her estimates of the values of her initial guess, and carries on doing that until either she's pretty sure she's found as good a move as she can, or her automatic alarm clock tells her to just choose because the clock is ticking. Lee Sedol and the rest of us should scratch our heads as well as shake them in dismay, for we all have been beaten at our own game by a dumbass box of tricks that just guesses. Fancy that! -- patient: "whenever i open my mouth, i get a shooting pain in my foot" doctor: "fire!" http://sites.google.com/site/djhbrown2/home https://www.youtube.com/user/djhbrown _______________________________________________ Computer-go mailing list Computer-go@computer-go.org http://computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go