DeepMind is a world leader in
artificial intelligence research and its purpose for positive impact. The
company was acquired by Google in 2014, and since then it has created a neural
network that learns how to play video games just like humans do. In 2016 the
company broke headlines when its AlphaGo program beat a professional Go human
player and then later on again against the world champion. Once DeepMind
mastered the ability to beat the best human players in the world, it attempted
to beat its own best games using a self-taught feature on a Go player, which
ways alter on called AlphaGo Zero.
AlphaGo Zero has managed to
rediscover over 3,000 years’ worth of human intelligence through the game and
only within 72 hours. The intelligence was such a great achievement due to its immense
speed and its ability to create and start from scratch by trying different
random movements and determining which were found most effective.
At Google’s Go North conference,
DeepMind CEO and co-founder, Demis Hassabis, explained how AlphaGo Zero has yet
to reach its full potential. They actually shut down the experiment before they
could conclude the maximum intelligence because they “needed the computers for
something else”. The company may start the experiment back up in the future to
determine how much further it can go.
Questions:
1. Do
you think using something such as AlphaGo can be implemented elsewhere in the
world besides video games?
2. Are
you worried about how far something like this can go?
3. When
will the intelligence stop? Or will it ever do you think?
Hello Lindsay,
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This is an interesting article, I think this kind of technology is amazing. The things technology can accomplish now a days, I can't really fathom anymore. As for your last question, I think that this type of intelligence won't stop. AlphaGo showed how quickly it can gather data from just video gaming, I think that this technology has so much potential and can be used in really any situation where there is are human decisions taking place.
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