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Google's AI Takes Historic Match Against Go Champ With Third Straight Win - WIRED
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WIRED
But this is the first time an artificially intelligent system has topped one of the very best at Go, which is exponentially more complex than chess and requires an added level of intuition—at least among humans. This makes the win a major milestone ...
AlphaGo beats Lee Se-dol again to take Google DeepMind Challenge seriesThe Verge
Google DeepMind's AlphaGo Wins 5-Match Go Series With Third Straight Victory Against World Champion Lee SedolInternational Business Times
Big win for AI as Google AlphaGo program trounces Korean player in Go tournamentCIO
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South by Southwest 2016 Opens, Highlights Tech Innovation - Sci-Tech Today
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Sci-Tech Today
Long a yardstick for advances in AI, the era of board game testing has come to an end, said Murray Campbell, an IBM research scientist who was part of the team that developed Deep Blue, the first computer program to beat a world chess champion. "Games ...
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What your gaming name reveals about your personality - Times LIVE
Times LIVE
Times LIVE
In our research, we teamed up with Riot Games (the makers of LoL), to look at the types of user names people were creating. We noticed that some players used highly antisocial words in their user names. We will not sully your eyes with graphic examples ...
What's up March 12, 2016 - News-Press Now
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Proceeds from this event go toward the Lions mission for sight research, area charities and eyeglasses for those in the St. Joseph community in need of optical assistance. East Hills Shopping Center's Easter Bunny Arrival will be held at 11 a.m. in the ...
Local chess club sends team to 'states' - Lockport Union-Sun & Journal
Lockport Union-Sun & Journal
Lockport Union-Sun & Journal
CONTRIBUTED PHOTOShown here are the 2016 Onondaga County Scholastic K-12 Chess Champions, members of the Golden Knights of Lockport chess club. They are, from left, Richard Dodge III, Andrew Pencille, co-captains Christian Martin and Carson ...
Registration open for City Chess Championship - Madison Record
Madison Record
Competing in the Open Section can be a major benefit to students who plan to compete at one or more of the upcoming national scholastic chess tournaments. In these tournaments, the game time lasts two hours per side. Open Sections have divisions for ...
Former Soviet Chess Champ Who's Now an Advocate for Capitalism Has Some Pointed Words for Sanders and His ... - TheBlaze.com
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TheBlaze.com
At the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis, Garry Kasparov, ambassador of the Grand Chess Tour, and representatives from Sinquefield Cup, Norway Chess 2015, and London Chess Classic organizations, gathered to announce a new chess ...
Former Soviet Chess Champ Who's Now an Advocate for Capitalism Has Some Pointed Words for Sanders and His ... - TheBlaze.com
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TheBlaze.com
At the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis, Garry Kasparov, ambassador of the Grand Chess Tour, and representatives from Sinquefield Cup, Norway Chess 2015, and London Chess Classic organizations, gathered to announce a new chess ...
AlphaGo beats champion Sedol in second straight game of Go - Fusion
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Specifically, Kasparov was hopeful for research leading to the development of “a program that played chess by thinking like a human, perhaps even by learning the game as a human does” as opposed to one that simply plays better, more efficient chess.
Google's Go triumph is a milestone for artificial intelligence researchNew Statesman
Computer beats human in Go: Should we be scared or excited about A.I. milestone?Michigan Radio
HomeArticlesFaultlineGoogle's AI ready to conquer Go? Solve most human problemsRethink Research (subscription)
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WHAT'S HAPPENING for March (Updated March 11) - The Sun Herald
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Picayune Chess Club Tournament: 8-9 a.m. registration, 9:15 a.m. Round one, 1 p.m. Round two and 4:30 p.m. Round three, March 12-13, Holiday Inn Express Suites, 1001 Dauphin St. Cost: $40 entry fee paid by March 4. Details: 901-609-0696. American ...
New scheduling optimisation tool for handball, football and volleyball tournaments - Phys.Org
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Phys.Org
SINTEF researchers have for many years been assisting the Norwegian Football Association (NFF) with the scheduling of its professional premier and second tier leagues (Tippeligaen and OBOS-ligaen, respectively). Annual fixture lists for the ...
Practice makes perfect? The key to breaking performance barriers - Deseret News
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Deseret News
His research attracted wide attention in 2008, when Malcolm Gladwell's book "Outliers" popularized the “10,000-hour rule,” which held that any discipline — from playing the piano to jiu jitsu — takes 10,000 hours to master. ... In “Peak: Secrets from ...
Google's DeepMind AI wants to make your smartphone virtual assistant better - Android Authority (blog)
Android Authority (blog)
Android Authority (blog)
“Go has always been a holy grail for AI research,” DeepMind founder Demis Hassabis told The Verge in an interview following AlphaGo's first victory against Korean Go champion Lee Sedol this week (which has already been followed up by a second victory ...
The Sadness and Beauty of Watching Google's AI Play Go - WIRED
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WIRED
The move in question was the 37th in the second game of the historic Go match between Lee Sedol, one of the world's top players, and AlphaGo, an artificially intelligent computing system built by researchers at Google. Inside the towering Four Seasons ...
Why Go is so much harder for AI to beat than chessTech Insider (blog)
Computer Beats Go World Champ, Leading Series 2-0ZME Science
Google's DeepMind AI wants to make your smartphone virtual assistant betterAndroid Authority (blog)
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How Kuato Studios is teaching kids through mobile games - Pocket Gamer.Biz
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“I think I've got a bronze swimming certificate somewhere,” Turvey offers, which doesn't impress quite as much as the fact that Kuato also holds a nominal base at the Stanford Research Institute in Palo Alto. These are the same people that developed ...
With artificial intelligence having beaten humans in board games, what's next? - Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
Games are typically chosen for the specific challenges that researchers want their AI to be able to overcome. With board games such as chess and Go, computer programs are put through the ringer to see if they can learn from past matches and determine ...
After Go, Google AI has its eyes set on Starcraft - ZME Science
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ZME Science
Google's algorithm AlphaGo stunned the world by defeating Go legend Lee Se-dol yesterday, and winning another game today. After checkers, chess and now go, what's next? Well, Google engineers may have their eyes set on Starcraft – a strategy computer ...
Computer Beats Go World Champ, Leading Series 2-0 - ZME Science
ZME Science
ZME Science
In its essence, it's simpler than chess. There are no pieces that move or behave differently – all pieces -called stones – are equal. However, in terms of possible moves and outcomes, go is way, way more complex than chess. The total number of moves in ...