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http://www.wired.com/2016/03/go-grandmaster-lee-sedol-grabs-consolation-win-googles-ai/
3-1 guess we'd better not have the Go-AI drive our cars yet.
Notice how the emphase is not on Sedol playing with the white (no mention), while last match they reminded us how hard the AI had it to play with the white.
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I hope we will get so much useful stuff out of it, like we had with Deep Blue, or the Jeopardy AI.
But I guess are all of those are just marketing stunts...
Deep Blue was a ads on how MS was good with computers. Google is doing the same here.
It's marketing.
My problem with marketing expense: It's great for companies, giving them more exposure and customers. But, for customers this is money purely wasted (to win them over), instead of using it to make the product better (except if google sell Go playing games.. And nobody will buy a game we cannot win.. a total waste)