Rise of the Game-Playing Machines

This doesn't mean we will no longer be the "dominate species" at these games. Humans did create the algorithms that led to this computer victory. Until there is a jump to complete, independent sentience of a computer mind, these accomplishments will only go to display human ingenuity.

Also, think about how much more efficient the human brain is. The 800 parallel processors must take up huge amounts of space and draw a ton of power compared to the brain. So while we can build a better computer by just throwing more resources at it until it gets good enough, the human brain is still in a sense much much better at solving the problem.

it still needed a nine stone handicap to win. That still means that the majority of pros can beat it in an even game. It's coming along, but still a long ways from playing even with a 9P.

Nine Stones is pretty significant. I'm only about 6 kyu, so something that takes 9 stones from a 9 dan is likely to beat me, but the point of choosing your moves, is to not lose points, of which this machine lost almost a hundred.

My respects, to whoever managed to program that much computing power, but the game of Go is there to sharpen the mind, rather than to play a game of scores.

Arawn

Do you hear what I hear, then you might be selling flowers too.

Well, there's a mistake, Go is not a Japanese strategy game. According to Wikipedia, Go originated in China, where it has been played for at least two thousand years.

The program took the most handicap stones allowed by the game... it cannot hang with any professional on even scale yet, although the win with 9H against an 8p player is still significant. I'd like to play it myself... I haven't seen any bot that could get over 6k yet.