Began a live broadcast of the game program AlphaGo against Korean Lee Sedalia (second in the world by number of international titles). The broadcast is available on YouTube.
During the week Whether SEDOL will play five games against the AI. In case of a victory the Korean will get a million dollars. Otherwise, the money will be donated to charity.
Logical Board game, originated in ancient China, is considered the “hard nut” for artificial intelligence — due to the large size of the Board and difficulties in predicting moves.
There are two players: one player gets the black stones, the other white. The goal of opponents is to isolate on the game Board with stones of his color more territory than the opponent. The best programs still reach only to the level of Amateur players.
AlphaGo program developed by Google-owned DeepMind company, uses the so-called “network of values” to estimate the positions of pieces on the Board and “network rules” for choice of moves. These neural networks are studying the game, analyzing the major parties, as well as through trial and error, playing alone.
AlphaGo beat other programs in 99.8 per cent of the parties and achieved superiority over the European champion for the game of go (with a score of five to zero) without any handicap. Now AlphaGo waiting for the tournament with the higher-level professional.
