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Tonight: Watch an AI Take On One of the World's Best Go Players - Popular Mechanics
Popular Mechanics
Tonight: Watch an AI Take On One of the World's Best Go Players
Popular Mechanics
It was an amazing leap forward for neural networks. While it's been generally accepted that even the world's best chess players can be beat by a chess program running on commercially available hardware since the mid-2000s, Go has resisted the brute ...
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
Google's AI Is About to Battle a Go Champion—But This Is No GameWIRED
Newsy -ZDNet -The Guardian
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Popular Mechanics
It was an amazing leap forward for neural networks. While it's been generally accepted that even the world's best chess players can be beat by a chess program running on commercially available hardware since the mid-2000s, Go has resisted the brute ...
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
Google's AI Is About to Battle a Go Champion—But This Is No GameWIRED
Newsy -ZDNet -The Guardian
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Community news - Chicago Tribune
Community news
Chicago Tribune
Join scientist Bob Brodman at 1 p.m. March 26 for a program on amphibians based upon his research work at Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore. The program is presented at the Paul H. Douglas Center as part of its weekly Saturday Open House Series.
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Chicago Tribune
Join scientist Bob Brodman at 1 p.m. March 26 for a program on amphibians based upon his research work at Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore. The program is presented at the Paul H. Douglas Center as part of its weekly Saturday Open House Series.
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For International Women's Day, meet LA's first female head librarian – a teenager who settled bar bets and worked to ... - Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
For International Women's Day, meet LA's first female head librarian – a teenager who settled bar bets and worked to ...
Los Angeles Times
Foy also established a Dewey Decimal catalog system, hosted the Ladies Reading Room, and refereed chess games in the Newspaper Room. William Mulholland, who was designing the city's aqueduct system, came to the library asking if he could take home a ...
Los Angeles Times
Foy also established a Dewey Decimal catalog system, hosted the Ladies Reading Room, and refereed chess games in the Newspaper Room. William Mulholland, who was designing the city's aqueduct system, came to the library asking if he could take home a ...
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The U.S. Government Launches a $100-Million "Apollo Project of the Brain" - Scientific American
Scientific American
The U.S. Government Launches a $100-Million "Apollo Project of the Brain"
Scientific American
Now the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), a research organization for the intelligence community modeled after the defense department's famed DARPA, has dedicated $100 million to a similarly ambitious project. The Machine ...
Scientific American
Now the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), a research organization for the intelligence community modeled after the defense department's famed DARPA, has dedicated $100 million to a similarly ambitious project. The Machine ...
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Education Matters: Whiteside Middle School reading event included running - Belleville News-Democrat
Belleville News-Democrat
Education Matters: Whiteside Middle School reading event included running
Belleville News-Democrat
A teacher and nine students at Signal Hill School in Belleville again participated in the St. Baldrick's Foundation event, where they shaved their heads after raising more than $5,500 for childhood cancer research. Fifth-grade teacher Kyle Selliers ...
Belleville News-Democrat
A teacher and nine students at Signal Hill School in Belleville again participated in the St. Baldrick's Foundation event, where they shaved their heads after raising more than $5,500 for childhood cancer research. Fifth-grade teacher Kyle Selliers ...
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AlphaGo: a computer program so close to human intelligence it's far from artificial - Deutsche Welle
Deutsche Welle
AlphaGo: a computer program so close to human intelligence it's far from artificial
Deutsche Welle
Strategic games such as Go or chess - they're games we can all play but which, at the highest level, demand serious brain power as well as intuition and deep intelligence. Is this really the final frontier between human and artificial intelligence (AI ...
Google vs. Go: can AI beat the ultimate board game?The Verge
Google's AI Is About to Battle a Go Champion—But This Is No GameWIRED
AlphaGo match 'a win for humanity': Eric SchmidtZDNet
The Guardian -Daily Mail -BusinessKorea
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Deutsche Welle
Strategic games such as Go or chess - they're games we can all play but which, at the highest level, demand serious brain power as well as intuition and deep intelligence. Is this really the final frontier between human and artificial intelligence (AI ...
Google vs. Go: can AI beat the ultimate board game?The Verge
Google's AI Is About to Battle a Go Champion—But This Is No GameWIRED
AlphaGo match 'a win for humanity': Eric SchmidtZDNet
The Guardian -Daily Mail -BusinessKorea
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The Morning Download: Microsoft, Moving Beyond Windows, Will Offer Linux Version of SQL Server Database - Wall Street Journal (blog)
Wall Street Journal (blog)
The Morning Download: Microsoft, Moving Beyond Windows, Will Offer Linux Version of SQL Server Database
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Microsoft was ceding 15% of the $29.8 billion database market, by IDC Research Inc.'s measurements, to Linux-compatible products from rivals such as Oracle Corp. and International Business Machines Corp. But the shift would have ... Developed in China ...
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Wall Street Journal (blog)
Microsoft was ceding 15% of the $29.8 billion database market, by IDC Research Inc.'s measurements, to Linux-compatible products from rivals such as Oracle Corp. and International Business Machines Corp. But the shift would have ... Developed in China ...
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Google's AI Is About to Battle a Go Champion—But This Is No Game - WIRED
WIRED
Google's AI Is About to Battle a Go Champion—But This Is No Game
WIRED
At one o'clock in the afternoon local time, a digital Google creation will challenge one of the world's top players at the game of Go, the ancient Eastern pastime that's often compared to chess—though it's exponentially more complex. ... extreme ...
Pakistan pledges to prioritize Afghan peace processWSOC Charlotte
AlphaGo match 'a win for humanity': Eric SchmidtZDNet
Google's artificial intelligence machine to battle human champion of 'Go'The Guardian
Daily Mail -BusinessKorea
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WIRED
At one o'clock in the afternoon local time, a digital Google creation will challenge one of the world's top players at the game of Go, the ancient Eastern pastime that's often compared to chess—though it's exponentially more complex. ... extreme ...
Pakistan pledges to prioritize Afghan peace processWSOC Charlotte
AlphaGo match 'a win for humanity': Eric SchmidtZDNet
Google's artificial intelligence machine to battle human champion of 'Go'The Guardian
Daily Mail -BusinessKorea
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AlphaGo match 'a win for humanity': Eric Schmidt - ZDNet
ZDNet
AlphaGo match 'a win for humanity': Eric Schmidt
ZDNet
Four more matches are due to be played on March 10, 12, 13, and 15, with the winner taking $1 million. If AlphaGo wins, the money will be donated to Unicef and STEM for research and education. ... Go, a Chinese board game, has 10761 possible games ...
Google's artificial intelligence machine to battle human champion of 'Go'The Guardian
Google DeepMind's AlphaGo will take on Go world champion this weekDaily Mail
Competition among AI Developers Becoming IntenseBusinessKorea
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ZDNet
Four more matches are due to be played on March 10, 12, 13, and 15, with the winner taking $1 million. If AlphaGo wins, the money will be donated to Unicef and STEM for research and education. ... Go, a Chinese board game, has 10761 possible games ...
Google's artificial intelligence machine to battle human champion of 'Go'The Guardian
Google DeepMind's AlphaGo will take on Go world champion this weekDaily Mail
Competition among AI Developers Becoming IntenseBusinessKorea
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Do Computer Coding Toys for Kids Really Work? - Live Science
Do Computer Coding Toys for Kids Really Work?
Live Science
From beating the best human players at chess, to flying planes, to running stock market transactions, computers are now used in virtually every facet of modern-day life. But children aren't being adequately prepared to understand and use this ...
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Live Science
From beating the best human players at chess, to flying planes, to running stock market transactions, computers are now used in virtually every facet of modern-day life. But children aren't being adequately prepared to understand and use this ...
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What Happens When a Company Loses a Patent? - Kellogg Insight
Kellogg Insight
What Happens When a Company Loses a Patent?
Kellogg Insight
Sometimes patents are applied for merely as a strategy to block a competitor's research. Bianchi and his team wanted to know if the increase in patenting activity represented an uptick in meaningful innovation or whether it was simply part of a chess move.
Google News Kellogg Insight
Sometimes patents are applied for merely as a strategy to block a competitor's research. Bianchi and his team wanted to know if the increase in patenting activity represented an uptick in meaningful innovation or whether it was simply part of a chess move.
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Happy Birthday, Control Freaks - Los Angeles Post-Examiner
Los Angeles Post-Examiner
Happy Birthday, Control Freaks
Los Angeles Post-Examiner
They were discriminating, and yet verified nearly 40 links also found in prior medical research. But when research is still fairly new, it's meant to round out what you already know, correct what you falsely assumed, and make your question long ...
Los Angeles Post-Examiner
They were discriminating, and yet verified nearly 40 links also found in prior medical research. But when research is still fairly new, it's meant to round out what you already know, correct what you falsely assumed, and make your question long ...
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Will Machines Take Over Finance? - CFO
CFO
Will Machines Take Over Finance?
CFO
... announced that it had used “machine learning” (which is still a major thread of AI research) to develop a computer capable of defeating the European champion at Go, the ancient Chinese game of strategy. Go is a much more complex “problem” than ...
CFO
... announced that it had used “machine learning” (which is still a major thread of AI research) to develop a computer capable of defeating the European champion at Go, the ancient Chinese game of strategy. Go is a much more complex “problem” than ...
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Former Pentagon Official Has an Idea for How We Can Avoid a Robopocalypse - Big Think (blog)
Big Think (blog)
Former Pentagon Official Has an Idea for How We Can Avoid a Robopocalypse
Big Think (blog)
Scharre directs the 20YY Future of Warfare Initiative at Center for a New American Security (CNAS), a policy research group in Washington, D.C. In the report Autonomous Weapons and Operational Risk, Scharre discusses the kinds of failures that could ...
Big Think (blog)
Scharre directs the 20YY Future of Warfare Initiative at Center for a New American Security (CNAS), a policy research group in Washington, D.C. In the report Autonomous Weapons and Operational Risk, Scharre discusses the kinds of failures that could ...
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Rising Commodity Prices Jumpstarts Stock Prices - Seeking Alpha
Rising Commodity Prices Jumpstarts Stock Prices
Seeking Alpha
Fears of an economic slowdown or worse have all but gone away over the last few weeks, as the latest key data points indicate that the U.S economy is on stronger footing - stronger than most of the pundits expected. Growth has begun to rebound from a ...
Seeking Alpha
Fears of an economic slowdown or worse have all but gone away over the last few weeks, as the latest key data points indicate that the U.S economy is on stronger footing - stronger than most of the pundits expected. Growth has begun to rebound from a ...
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Google's artificial intelligence machine to battle human champion of 'Go' - The Guardian
The Guardian
Google's artificial intelligence machine to battle human champion of 'Go'
The Guardian
The company was founded by Demis Hassabis, a 39-year-old Brit who started the artificial intelligence (AI) research firm after a varied career taking in a neuroscience PhD, blockbuster video game development, and master-level chess – and he puts its ...
Google DeepMind's AlphaGo will take on Go world champion this weekDaily Mail
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The Guardian
The company was founded by Demis Hassabis, a 39-year-old Brit who started the artificial intelligence (AI) research firm after a varied career taking in a neuroscience PhD, blockbuster video game development, and master-level chess – and he puts its ...
Google DeepMind's AlphaGo will take on Go world champion this weekDaily Mail
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The history of how Scotland brought golf to America - Scotsman (blog)
Scotsman (blog)
The history of how Scotland brought golf to America
Scotsman (blog)
... find the headquarters of the United States Golf Association. More than 20,000 books line the shelves of their research library, alongside complete or near-complete runs of every golf magazine there has ever been, more than half a million ...
Google News Scotsman (blog)
... find the headquarters of the United States Golf Association. More than 20,000 books line the shelves of their research library, alongside complete or near-complete runs of every golf magazine there has ever been, more than half a million ...
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The Valeant Endgame Has Begun - Seeking Alpha
Seeking Alpha
The Valeant Endgame Has Begun
Seeking Alpha
For those of you that have followed the Valeant (NYSE:VRX) saga, chess terminology should sound somewhat familiar. It all started with Philidor and its network of specialty pharmacies named after famous chess moves and what we are currently seeing is ...
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Seeking Alpha
For those of you that have followed the Valeant (NYSE:VRX) saga, chess terminology should sound somewhat familiar. It all started with Philidor and its network of specialty pharmacies named after famous chess moves and what we are currently seeing is ...
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Google DeepMind's AlphaGo will take on Go world champion this week - Daily Mail
Daily Mail
Google DeepMind's AlphaGo will take on Go world champion this week
Daily Mail
President of the British Go Association Jon Diamond said: 'Following the Chess match between Gary Kasparov and IBM's Deep Blue in 1996 the goal of some Artificial Intelligence researchers to beat the top human Go players was an outstanding challenge ...
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Daily Mail
President of the British Go Association Jon Diamond said: 'Following the Chess match between Gary Kasparov and IBM's Deep Blue in 1996 the goal of some Artificial Intelligence researchers to beat the top human Go players was an outstanding challenge ...
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The supremely intelligent rat-cyborg - Phys.Org
Phys.Org
The supremely intelligent rat-cyborg
Phys.Org
When Deep Blue battled the reigning human chess champion the world held its breath. Who was smarter … man or machine? A human victory would confirm the superiority of human intelligence, while a victory for ... To compare the performance of the rats ...
Phys.Org
When Deep Blue battled the reigning human chess champion the world held its breath. Who was smarter … man or machine? A human victory would confirm the superiority of human intelligence, while a victory for ... To compare the performance of the rats ...
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