AI milestone- computer beats GO master in 9x9 game


	AI milestone- computer beats GO master in 9x9 game

wildcat

4-17-2008 4:36 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/7cca5c6d-02fa-4586-9e07-b194e320c42c/C0C02B05-83D1-4823-8117-CFCE2309512D/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://nextbigfuture.com/2008/04/artificial-intelligence-milestone.html" href="http://nextbigfuture.com/2008/04/artificial-intelligence-milestone.html" style="font-size: 11px;">nextbigfuture.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://nextbigfuture.com/2008/04/artificial-intelligence-milestone.html"><DIV>During the <A target="blank" href="http://paris2008.jeudego.org/index2.php" linkindex="5">Go Tournament in Paris, staged between 22 and 24 March 2008</A> by the French Go Federation (FFG), the MoGo artificial intelligence (IA) engine developed by INRIA -- the French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control -- running on a Bull NovaScale supercomputer, <A target="blank" href="http://www.inria.fr/saclay/news/the-machine-vs-the-go-master-1" linkindex="6">won a 9x9 game of Go against</A> professional <A target="blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_ranks_and_ratings" linkindex="7">5th DAN Catalin Taranu.</A> This was the first ever officially sanctioned 'non blitz' victory of a 'machine' over a Go Master.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://nextbigfuture.com/2008/04/artificial-intelligence-milestone.html"><DIV>Although Catalin Taranu beat the computer in a 19x19 configuration with a nine-stone handicap, the Go Master nevertheless rated the IA system as 'approaching Dan standard' in a performance that promises some formidable battles to come between man and machine. Dan standard would be a ranking of 2100 versus a 2830 ranking for a 5th professional DAN player and 2940 for a 9th professional DAN player.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://nextbigfuture.com/2008/04/artificial-intelligence-milestone.html">Computer Go is one of the biggest challenges faced by game programmers</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/C0C02B05-83D1-4823-8117-CFCE2309512D/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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