As well as humanity’s dignity, there’s a $1 million prize pot at stake, but DeepMind will be donating its winnings to charity should it take the crown. And it did so by making a move that Lee said a human never would have made. “AlphaGo took nearly all of its time compared to Lee Sedol who had nearly 30 minutes left on the clock”. But in a major breakthrough for artificial intelligence, a Google computer program called AlphaGo beat the world champion, South Korea’s Lee Se-dol, on Tuesday night in the first of five matches.
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“Go is a profoundly complex game, which is why this has always been regarded as the outstanding grand challenge for artificial intelligence”, Hassabis noted in a blog post yesterday. The 33-year-old has won 18 of the last 21 world Go championships since turning pro at age 12.
“AlphaGo was a 4th or 5th dan a year ago based on articles in the journal Nature in January, but it’s evolved to the highest rank of 9th dan in about five months”, said Kim Dae-shik, a professor of electronics and electrical engineering at KAIST. AlphaGo is just the latest manifestation of how far the technology has come in such a short amount of time, but Musk believes if the process is open sourced and transparent, A.I. companies such as Google Deepmind will do more to benefit the public than destroy it.
That indicates that we’re still not close to the point where AI reaches a tipping point that overtakes human intelligence, Olsen said.
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“I think the best defense against the misuse of A.I.is to empower as many people as possible to have A.I.”, Musk said in a 2015 interview with Backchannel. It is, after all, more than 20 years since a computer beat us at draughts and 19 since IBM’s finest beat Garry Kasparov in a game of chess.
