Chess (1996)

Kasparov

Go (2016)

Lee Sedol

Computers vs Humans

Gaming AI

  • An abstract board game for two players
  • Played on a 19×19 board
  • Playing pieces are white and black stones
  • Stones placed on vacant intersections of board
  • Player which surrounds more territory wins
  • One of the most complicated games

'Go' game

What is it and why?

'Go' game

What is it and why?

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possible positions

'Go' game

What is it and why?

  • Impossible to calculate every possible move on board
  • Bruteforce method used by most AIs clearly fails
  • Go requires more intuition and experience than just logic
  • Becomes necessary to mimic human mind

Alpha Go

What is it?

  • A 'General Purpose' AI program that can play Go game
  • Developed by Google Deep Mind
  • Not a pre-programmed algorithm, it learns from itself and from others

AlphaGo

Reinforcement learning

AlphaGo

What is next?

AlphaGo Master, AlphaGo Zero and AlphaZero

 

Updates

Games

Starcraft II, Dota II

 

Future

Climate modelling, disease analysis

 

AlphaGo

Personal thoughts

Learning from humans does not mean acting like one

AlphaGo

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By Jaume Vicens Rivas

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