Re: go programs

Posted by Robert J. Cordingley on Mar 13, 2016; 10:01pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/go-programs-tp7587292p7587295.html

Then I'm wondering if in losing the first 3 games Lee Sedol was no longer under any pressure to win the $million prize and could play in a more relaxed but more focused way - tho' I've not seen any commentary that effect yet.

Interestingly AlphaGo was initially trained on strong amateur games available on the internet and no Lee Sedol games. It got stronger by playing itself. Wonder what would happen if it trained on available professional games but a few more hundred games wouldn't apparently make much difference since "AlphaGo required millions of games to train itself".

FYI the final match 5 is on Monday Mar 14 9:00 pm Mountain Time - Tuesday Mar 15 04:00 GMT

Robert C

On 3/13/16 9:03 AM, Robert J. Cordingley wrote:

Here's the link for match 4 (of 5) that AlphaGo resigned. Score now stands at 3:1.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCALyQRN3hw
Post match press conference starts around 5:45:10 - a big news event in Korea.

Robert C

On 3/13/16 8:00 AM, Roger Critchlow wrote:

I've been watching parts of the match between Lee Sedol and Alpha Go on the youtube deepmind channel.  It's quite good, they start off with a discussion of the previous game, give running commentary during the game, and audibly gasp when the progress of the game shocks them.  The post match press conferences are not to be missed, either.  It's a completely trump free zone.

But you're looking at a full day's work for each game, 6 hours and 17 minutes of video from last night's game which Lee Sedol won.  I was too tired to stay up and watch so I tuned into youtube this morning and watched the endgame.

Apparently I forwarded past the key move, #78, which a Chinese journalist, quoting a Chinese commentator, called "a God's move".  Lee Sedol replied that it was the only move he had at the time, that he had thought it would be easier to make some profit, but it was quite difficult.

So the same play is described as both creative genius and inevitable in the space of a few sentences.  Glad to know that some things will never change.

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