Man versus machine. What happens when robots think like humans?
Quote: The long running story of man versus machine reached an important new milestone in March, this year, when Google’s AlphaGo program scored a 4-1 victory in the ancient board game Go, against one of the world’s best players: Lee Sedol of South Korea.
This defeat – at the 2500 year-old game of strategy that is many times more complex than Chess – is arguably more significant for humankind than the victory by IBM’s Deep Blue Chess computer against the world champion Garry Kasparov in 1997. It’s more significant because, unlike Deep Blue’s 2-1 (and three draws) victory, AlphaGo’s triumph was not achieved by brute-force calculation – analysing all possible moves and outcomes at each turn – but by using experience to choose the strategy most likely to be successful. This is closer to the way a human plays the game, using intuition. Endquote
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This defeat – at the 2500 year-old game of strategy that is many times more complex than Chess – is arguably more significant for humankind than the victory by IBM’s Deep Blue Chess computer against the world champion Garry Kasparov in 1997. It’s more significant because, unlike Deep Blue’s 2-1 (and three draws) victory, AlphaGo’s triumph was not achieved by brute-force calculation – analysing all possible moves and outcomes at each turn – but by using experience to choose the strategy most likely to be successful. This is closer to the way a human plays the game, using intuition. Endquote
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