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Computer beats human experts at Go for the first time
« on: January 28, 2016, 01:12:41 PM »
Another yet more complex game knocked off the list of things that computers can beat us at:

http://www.nature.com/news/google-ai-algorithm-masters-ancient-game-of-go-1.19234
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Re: Computer beats human experts at Go for the first time
« Reply #1 on: January 28, 2016, 07:55:38 PM »
Every time I've seen this headline all I can think is "how do you define beating someone at a programming language?"

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Re: Computer beats human experts at Go for the first time
« Reply #2 on: January 28, 2016, 08:57:12 PM »
Huh, I hadn't even heard of the programming language for some reason.
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