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Computer beats human in Go: Should we be scared or excited about A.I. milestone? - Michigan Radio

Chess Research - Wed, 03/09/2016 - 16:38

Michigan Radio

Computer beats human in Go: Should we be scared or excited about A.I. milestone?
Michigan Radio
To help us understand more about what exactly artificial intelligence is, Michigan State University biologist and computer scientist Arend Hintze joined Stateside to talk about his research in the field. Hintze has said that he believes that artificial ...

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McGinnis, Mike (Athens) - The Chattanoogan

Chess Research - Wed, 03/09/2016 - 14:59

The Chattanoogan

McGinnis, Mike (Athens)
The Chattanoogan
They enjoyed 4X wheeling, traveling to various cities with Irish pubs, going to Ireland and genealogical research. He was an avid ... At age 76, he felt his greatest success was having taught Hannah Timmerman, his granddaughter, his beloved game of chess.

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The Skills of Human Interaction Will Become Most Valuable in the Future - New York Times

Chess Research - Wed, 03/09/2016 - 12:47

The Skills of Human Interaction Will Become Most Valuable in the Future
New York Times
Just as they beat the world champions at checkers and then chess, they were destined to beat the champion at Go. It's a game of clear rules, and while winning required new forms of computing that rely on ... Research on group effectiveness shows that ...

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Psychology: No blank slate - Nature.com

Chess Research - Wed, 03/09/2016 - 11:55

Psychology: No blank slate
Nature.com
In 1966, psychologist John Money of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, met someone who he felt was the research patient of a lifetime. David Reimer, then an eight-month-old boy, had had his penis mutilated in a circumcision accident ...

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'The How and the Why': Two generations of women take on science and each other in this play - Minneapolis Star Tribune

Chess Research - Wed, 03/09/2016 - 11:32

Minneapolis Star Tribune

'The How and the Why': Two generations of women take on science and each other in this play
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Written by Sarah Treem, who has also achieved success as a screenwriter — she is co-creator of the Showtime series "The Affair" — the play begins with promising grad student Rachel arriving for an appointment at the office of established researcher ...

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Data Sheet—Wednesday, March 9, 2016 - Fortune - Fortune

Chess Research - Wed, 03/09/2016 - 08:26

Data Sheet—Wednesday, March 9, 2016 - Fortune
Fortune
Microsoft's startling sequel. There was a time when the one thing you could be certain of in the technology industry was that Microsoft wouldn't work with ...

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A computer takes on a human master of the board game Go - CNN

Chess Research - Wed, 03/09/2016 - 08:06

CNN

A computer takes on a human master of the board game Go
CNN
The AI research community has made incredible progress in five years. Researchers at Google have turned what used to be theoretical machine learning constructs into tangible, useful products. Some of the effects are subtle improvements: more relevant ...

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What your gaming name reveals about your personality - Medical Xpress

Chess Research - Wed, 03/09/2016 - 07:51

Medical Xpress

What your gaming name reveals about your personality
Medical Xpress
People online often live behind a veil of anonymity – and video gamers are no exception. Hundreds of millions of people play online games every day and are ...

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Google's Go triumph is a milestone for artificial intelligence research - New Statesman

Chess Research - Wed, 03/09/2016 - 07:07

New Statesman

Google's Go triumph is a milestone for artificial intelligence research
New Statesman
Computer games have been a crucial test bed for developing and testing new AI techniques – the “lab rat” of our research. This has led to superhuman players in checkers, chess, Scrabble, backgammon and more recently, simple forms of poker.
Master of Go Is Walloped by Emotionless Challenger, a Google ComputerNew York Times
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Master of Go Board Game Is Walloped by Google Computer Program - New York Times

Chess Research - Wed, 03/09/2016 - 06:33

New York Times

Master of Go Board Game Is Walloped by Google Computer Program
New York Times
The play is more complex than chess, with a far greater possible sequence of moves, which had led many researchers to predict that mastery of the game by a computer was still a decade away. To researchers who have been using games as platforms for ...
Why is Google's Go win such a big deal?The Verge
Today, a board game; tomorrow, the worldFinancial Times
Google DeepMind, humanity and a freakishly hard gameCNBC
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Quartz Daily Brief—Americas edition—Trump and Sanders win big ... - Quartz

Chess Research - Wed, 03/09/2016 - 04:47

Quartz Daily Brief—Americas edition—Trump and Sanders win big ...
Quartz
What to watch for today Slovenia and Croatia shut their borders. Only refugees with valid visas will be able to transit through from today onwards. Serbia and ...

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What your gaming name reveals about your personality - EconoTimes - EconoTimes

Chess Research - Wed, 03/09/2016 - 03:11

EconoTimes

What your gaming name reveals about your personality - EconoTimes
EconoTimes
EconoTimes is a fast growing non-partisan source of news and intelligence on global economy and financial markets, providing timely, relevant, and critical ...

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Man vs. machine: AlphaGo AI program beats Lee Sedol in first game of Go duel - GeekWire

Chess Research - Wed, 03/09/2016 - 02:57

Hindustan Times

Man vs. machine: AlphaGo AI program beats Lee Sedol in first game of Go duel
GeekWire
Go is arguably the world's most complex game because its 19-by-19 playing board provides for 10170 legal positions, compared with 1050 positions for chess. This week's match has been compared to the historic chess duel between IBM's ... Google Deepmind ...
Going places: machine beats top Go player in win for artificial intelligenceReuters
A new AI frontier: Winning this freakishly hard gameCNBC
Google's DeepMind AlphaGo beats world Go champion in first of five matchesDaily Mail
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Twitter is 10. Where were other social networks after a decade? - New Statesman

Chess Research - Wed, 03/09/2016 - 02:26

New Statesman

Twitter is 10. Where were other social networks after a decade?
New Statesman
Twitter, for all its sins, has made it to 10. A whole decade. Which, given that the world wide web itself is only around a quarter of a century old, is no mean feat.

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Quartz Daily Brief—Europe and Africa edition—Google AI vs. Go, Sanders wins Michigan, mansplaining Women's Day - Quartz

Chess Research - Tue, 03/08/2016 - 23:26

Quartz Daily Brief—Europe and Africa edition—Google AI vs. Go, Sanders wins Michigan, mansplaining Women's Day
Quartz
The game, which is based on intuition and much more complicated than chess, will test the DeepMind AI's abilities against a human expert. While you ... Companies with a larger share of women in senior roles are more profitable, according to IMF research.

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A new AI frontier: Winning this freakishly hard game - CNBC

Chess Research - Tue, 03/08/2016 - 21:37

CNBC

A new AI frontier: Winning this freakishly hard game
CNBC
The tricky part, Demis Hassabis, vice president of engineering at Google DeepMind, told the press conference, was that unlike a game of chess which, for example, has on average 20 possible moves from an average position, a game of Go could have more ...
Tonight: Watch an AI Take On One of the World's Best Go PlayersPopular Mechanics
Google vs. Go: can AI beat the ultimate board game?The Verge
AlphaGo: a computer program so close to human intelligence it's far from artificialDeutsche Welle
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The one-minute trick that will fix your back pain for good - Stuff.co.nz

Chess Research - Tue, 03/08/2016 - 21:02

Stuff.co.nz

The one-minute trick that will fix your back pain for good
Stuff.co.nz
The perfect example is the chess press, something that for men is a go-to exercise because they want a big chest and big shoulders. All it's doing is shortening your pec major and pec minor and internally rotating your shoulders, giving you that ...

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Shatranj, a game in theory - The Hindu

Chess Research - Tue, 03/08/2016 - 18:57

The Hindu

Shatranj, a game in theory
The Hindu
It is no surprise that the game-loving Yudhishthira declares thus his intention to enter into King Virata's court by, “presenting myself as a Brahmana, Kanka by name, skilled in dice and fond of play... and [by] moving upon chess-boards beautiful pawns ...

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REDLANDS DAILY FACTS CALENDAR - Redlands Daily Facts

Chess Research - Tue, 03/08/2016 - 17:56

REDLANDS DAILY FACTS CALENDAR
Redlands Daily Facts
Chess club: Redlands Chess Club meets 2 to 5 p.m. every Friday at Redlands Community Senior Center, 111 W. Lugonia Ave. Players of all ages are welcome, from ... Anyone interested in genealogy research is welcome to attend. Information: www.yvgs.org; ...

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Will AI Surpass Human Intelligence? Interview with Prof. Jürgen Schmidhuber on Deep Learning - InfoQ.com

Chess Research - Tue, 03/08/2016 - 16:05

Will AI Surpass Human Intelligence? Interview with Prof. Jürgen Schmidhuber on Deep Learning
InfoQ.com
That's why real-world games such as football are much harder than chess or Go, and Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) for RL robots living in partially observable environments will need more sophisticated learning algorithms, e.g., RL for recurrent ...

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