The Game of Go Mentioned in Financial Results
The game of Go is mentioned in the financial results of the French company Bull, which is an “expert in open, flexible and secure information systems and one of Europe’s leading players in the IT industry”:
“And for the first time ever, a supercomputer has recorded an official victory against a grand master in the game of Go. The game is more complex than chess, with more different possibilities than the number of particles in the known Universe. So this world first - which combined the use of a NovaScale supercomputer and artificial intelligence software developed by INRIA (the French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control) - represents a real achievement.”
The reference seems to be to the 9×9 match between Catalin Taranu 5p and the computer-Go program Mogo, about which I wrote an article a while ago, when Mogo won one game of the 3.
There will be soon another match between Mogo and a professional player, this time Kim Myungwan 8p of Korea. The match will be played on August 7th on KGS, at 1:00 PM PST in the Computer Go room. The board will be the normal 19×19 this time, and there will be some preliminary games to establish what the proper handicap should be (Catalin previously won against Mogo on 19×19 by giving it 9 stones handicap).
July 31st, 2008 at 5:01 am
1pm in what timezone?
July 31st, 2008 at 8:13 am
1pm PST, sorry.
August 7th, 2008 at 9:13 pm
Do you really think that one day computer able to beat human in igo, Sorin?
August 8th, 2008 at 10:35 pm
Biondy, yes, I think so - and I think it’s within the next 20 years that top pro will have trouble with top computer-Go programs.
I used to think the opposite, frankly, before Mogo appeared and had such good results this year.