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Someone Is Destroying Online Go, and Nobody Knows Who It Is

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Demis reveals that it's AlphaGo: https://twitter.com/demishassabis/status/816660463282954240

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned the lowercase 'e' in the "Master" logo. Seems like a dead giveaway.

Ah, good old Kotaku. Running the hot take of "Probably not X" before an authoritative source announces "Yep, X."

Heh, breaking a winning streak by your opponents internet timing out.

Off-topic: for some reason this website created lots of browser history items...

They missed a trick by not naming it Sai.

I know, right? I fully expected to click the article and see the person went by 'sai'.

Guess they never watched Hikaru No Go.

Interesting. I wonder who else is capable of making a bot of this complexity? Like the article said, it's probably not Google. They already have AlphaGo and wouldn't try to hide it under a new account.

Maybe this is a message to Google and other people training up AI programs using Go that another player is in the AI game.

Andrew Ng at Baidu?

Google published a pretty detailed research article about their approach a year ago. [1] A competent deep-learning team with access to a compute farm of ~1000 gpu's could be be following the google recipe. That is a nontrivial expense though, e.g. not some college kid in their dorm room.

[1] http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v529/n7587/full/nature1...

Seems like there's evidence that this 'Master' character is actually AlphaGo:

https://twitter.com/tadctw/status/816641505515302912

https://www.reddit.com/r/baduk/comments/5lz85o/master_alphag...

Apparently it's the new version of Google's bot.

You are right! Surprising way to test the bot.

Seems like a great writing prompt for some good hard Sci-Fi.

My favorite thoughts so far:

* We imagined alien life would make first contact through games.

* Emergent artificial lifeform grows through gaming.

Seems like a pretty compelling mystery anyway. I hope we get to find out the truth someday.

Chinese press article (translated into English):

http://www.ecns.cn/2017/01-04/239996.shtml

Reading the article, I thought there was a high chance it was a centaur.

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