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Tag: alphago

The AI Threat to Democracy

Oct 25, 2018

in AI

alphago, alphago zero, bias, bostrum, deepmind, ethics, machine learning, openai, paperclip maximiser, reinforcement learning

With the advent of strong reinforcement learning…, goal-oriented strategic AI is now very much a reality. The difference is one of categories, not increments. While a supervised learning system relies upon the metrics fed to it by humans to come up with meaningful predictions and lacks all capacity for goal-oriented strategic thinking, reinforcement learning systems…
a16z Podcast: Revenge of the Algorithms (Over Data)… Go! No?

Sep 17, 2018

in AI

algorithms, alphago, Data analysis, deepmind

An interesting (and sane) conversation about the defeat of AlphaGo by AlphaGo Zero. It almost completely avoids the science-fiction-y media coverage that tends to emphasise the potential for artificial general intelligence and instead focuses on the following key points: Go is a stupendously difficult board game for computers to play but it’s a game in…