News Google build first champion Go AI

So are they going to use this AI to enable their customers to sell more crap to internet users or do they have an actual use for it?

 

Now if someone would just apply this to dating site algorythms, we could be in business.

 

Gotta correct you there, no Genetic Algorithms are involved in the training of AlphaGo.

It's initially taught how to play by Supervised Learning on a bunch of previous human games (so it can predict moves a human might make in a given situation). Then this network is trained using an unorthodox form of reinforcement learning by playing games against previous versions against itself and updating network weights depending on whether it won or lost (which is a gradient method rather than a genetic algorithm method).

At this point it's already pretty good, but they then take the final 'policy' network and use it to train a 'value' network which evaluates the strength of various board positions. Finally this is combined with a tree search (with values of the 'value' network used to approximate weights of truncated branches) similar to most Chess engines.

If you havent seen some of their previous work on playing a bunch of Atari games, you should check those out too. Papers are all available on the Deepmind website.

 

Google's technology is always impressive, except Glass.

 

Ah, very good point lol.