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Is AlphaGo Really Such a Big Deal?
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11/04/2016 from
www.quantamagazine.org/20160329-why-alphago-is-really-such-a-big-deal/
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But Go programs still fell far short of human players in ability. It seemed as though a strong intuitive sense of board position was essential to success.
What’s new and important about AlphaGo is that its developers have figured out a way of bottling something very like that intuitive sense... .
Just because neural networks can do a good job of capturing some specific types of intuition, that doesn’t mean they can do as good a job with other types. Maybe neural networks will be no good at all at some tasks we currently think of as requiring intuition... With that said, systems like AlphaGo are genuinely exciting. We have learned to use computer systems to reproduce at least some forms of human intuition. Now we’ve got so many wonderful challenges ahead:
What’s new and important about AlphaGo is that its developers have figured out a way of bottling something very like that intuitive sense... .
Just because neural networks can do a good job of capturing some specific types of intuition, that doesn’t mean they can do as good a job with other types. Maybe neural networks will be no good at all at some tasks we currently think of as requiring intuition... With that said, systems like AlphaGo are genuinely exciting. We have learned to use computer systems to reproduce at least some forms of human intuition. Now we’ve got so many wonderful challenges ahead:
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