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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)
I didtnt want to speak about failure rate. My point was that the Jeopardy AI just help real medical student get a better diagnostic. Like a calculator help (without mistake) calculating an equation. Both are not AI . They are more or less powerful tool, helping human by reducing the amount of useless data we have to process to diagnose a patient, or calculate a trajectory. Talking about AI when talking about Jeopardy, Deep Blue, or Alpha go, is just marketing. Without human intervention, AlphaGo will never be able to learn to play Chess, or Magic the Gathering. It's a very good tool, once it is properly used. Like your 80's calculators.. which at least helped get to the moon, while AlphaGo just help labeling " chimps" on your phone's pictures:
Well, yes and no. For now. Eventually the plan is for Winston or whatever it was called to be able to do the medical student's job with no oversight at about a thousand times the speed. Yeah. But -- correct me if I'm wrong -- the people who designed AlphaGo could not sit down and beat Lee at Go. AI will impact history in phases. We are at a phase where it can't do anything without human implementation. Most people think we will leave this phase behind soon. So in one sense, calling something AI when it's just following instructions is misleading. But in another, if its instructions allow it to surpass its creators at its given function, what other word would you use?My point was that the Jeopardy AI just help real medical student get a better diagnostic.
Without human intervention, AlphaGo will never be able to learn to play Chess, or Magic the Gathering