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[Sheb]

Robots!

One day, robots will use this video as proof that we maltreated their kinds.

[iceball3]

One day, I'll have to explain why that wouldn't be the case.

I concur.

[martinuzz]

Watched a nice lecture with some facts and prognosis on world population today. Can recommend watching.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FACK2knC08E

[Levi]

Tonight/tomorrow morning Google's AI plays against probably the best Go Player in the world.

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/03/google-ai-begins-battle-with-humanitys-best-go-player-tonight/#p3

It'll be interesting to see how this goes because for a long time it was pretty much inconceivable for an AI to play Go at this level.

[Bauglir]

i'll bet 20 keks on the robot overlord

[TempAcc]

The guy the AI is up against is Lee See-Dol, pretty much a living Go legend, and far scarier then the guy AlphaGo beat in its other test. It should make for an interesting game even for people that don't play Go.

[Aklyon]

From what I could find out from the ars comments, Lee is 7 dans higher in Go ranks? He certainly sounds like a man who knows his board game.

[Starver]

Of course, Google's Go-Winning Thingummy cheats a little.  They've equipped the Go-Playing Doohickey with a flying drone so that, when the Go Whatsit needs to get a psychological advantage over the human player, Google's Go Gubbins brings its quadcopter in overhead to distract its opponent.  There'll be a lot of consternation when that Go Doodad does this, calling for an end to this tactic.

I confidently predict that you'll hear someone say "Go, Go Gadget Helicopter!"

[TempAcc]

Lee is basically the world's top Go player, being either on the same level or even better then GuLi, China's reigning champion. Lee is also a rarity among pro-Go players, since he often takes risks and does offensive, chaotic strats, while the top go players usualy play defensive.

[Sergarr]

Lee resigned, AlphaGo has won.

Cool stuff.

[Levi]

Lee resigned, AlphaGo has won.

Cool stuff.

Neat.  It'll be interesting to see if it wins all the games or if Lee wins some.

[Aklyon]

Lee resigned, AlphaGo has won.

Cool stuff.

The commentators kept wondering if they'd run out of stones to commentate with too, which was kinda amusing for sleepy-me.

[Starver]

So, if the AI wins, what games are left?

Spoiler: ObXKCD (click to show/hide)

[Descan]

In the future, humans are kept around only for two things: Art and writing from a human perspective... And thinking up new games for our AI overlords to not get bored with.

[penguinofhonor]

I love how Snakes and Ladders gets placed high on that scale because the user's input has absolutely no effect on the outcome. No matter what, we're just as good as computers at winning straight up random stuff.