If AlphaGo wins all 5 matches, what do you think DeepMind will do with it? My intuition is that they won't continue development, and instead focus on other applications.
Great game btw, a pleasure to watch.
Great game btw, a pleasure to watch.
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/national/AlphaGo-cant-beat-me-s...
Ke Jie believes he is slightly better than AlphaGo given the play he has seen, although he thinks AlphaGo will outpower him in a few months.
The belief that every good player that has so far played against AlphaGo would win highlights a common misunderstanding of the nature of the human mind. There seems to be in fact a very small difference between the aptitudes of the average players and those of the top players, such that it is very easy for a machine to go from average to superhuman. Getting to average is by far the harder part.
This is an interesting observation across many domains that involve "intelligence". It's actually pretty easy to see why, if you reconsider the scales for "good" vs "bad": The "bad" end of the scale is not at "the village idiot". The "bad" end of the scale is at "a rock". So, yes, once you get from "rock" to "village idiot", "superhuman" is a comparatively tiny step away.
In a sense this is unfair: alphaGo was trained with a lot of human data, but AFAIK Lee Sedol is playing AI for the first time.
I would assume the development will continue.
However, they won't make it such a big PR focus. (And even if they stop, other people will implement the same ideas.)