Tag: alphago
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The AI Threat to Democracy
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…
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a16z Podcast: Revenge of the Algorithms (Over Data)… Go! No?
in AIAn 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…
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DeepMind’s latest AI breakthrough is its most significant yet
“We reached a superior level of performance after training for just 72 hours with AlphaGo Zero,” he says. Only 4.9 million simulated games were needed to train Zero, compared to the original AlphaGo’s 30 million. After the three days of learning Zero was able to defeat the Lee Sedol-conquering version 100-0. After it had been…