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Man vs. machine: AlphaGo AI program beats Lee Sedol in first game of Go duel - GeekWire
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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
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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
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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.
A new AI frontier: Winning this freakishly hard game - CNBC
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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
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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 ...
Shatranj, a game in theory - The Hindu
The Hindu
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 ...
REDLANDS DAILY FACTS CALENDAR - Redlands Daily Facts
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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; ...
Will AI Surpass Human Intelligence? Interview with Prof. Jürgen Schmidhuber on Deep Learning - InfoQ.com
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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 ...
Tonight: Watch an AI Take On One of the World's Best Go Players - Popular Mechanics
Popular Mechanics
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
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Community news - Chicago Tribune
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
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 ...
The U.S. Government Launches a $100-Million "Apollo Project of the Brain" - Scientific American
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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 ...
Education Matters: Whiteside Middle School reading event included running - Belleville News-Democrat
Belleville News-Democrat
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 ...
AlphaGo: a computer program so close to human intelligence it's far from artificial - Deutsche Welle
Deutsche Welle
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
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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)
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
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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 ...
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AlphaGo match 'a win for humanity': Eric SchmidtZDNet
Google's artificial intelligence machine to battle human champion of 'Go'The Guardian
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AlphaGo match 'a win for humanity': Eric Schmidt - ZDNet
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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
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Do Computer Coding Toys for Kids Really Work? - Live Science
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
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.
Happy Birthday, Control Freaks - Los Angeles Post-Examiner
Los Angeles Post-Examiner
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 ...