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Eight 'go' stories July 2015 - June 2016

Google’s Deepmind AI to have a Go match with world’s new number one player

Edoardo Maggio Jun 6 2016 - 4:40 am PT

alphago-lee-sedol These days, Google — as well as many other tech giants — is all about Artificial Intelligence. We’ve seen it shown off in many different shapes at its latest I/O conference, but perhaps one of the biggest achievements in the field was a little far from the consumer-world of Allo or the new Google assistant.

After the recent victory, in fact, it will be Google’s Deepmind team to be put again to the test at Go, this time against the world’s new number one player (via Engadget)…

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SoundCloud launches $10/month ‘Go’ subscription service w/ ad-free & offline listening

Jordan Kahn Mar 29 2016 - 7:14 am PT

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Big changes are coming to the community-based music streaming service SoundCloud as the company today introduces a new subscription service for the first time.

The new feature, dubbed SoundCloud Go, will allow users to listen to SoundCloud music both offline and ad-free for $10/month:

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First look at gameplay from the upcoming Pokémon Go Android game

Jordan Kahn Mar 24 2016 - 8:10 am PT

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After announcing a deal in September to produce a Pokémon Go games with Nintendo and Alphabet-owned Niantic, the Pokémon people are today showing a little more about how gameplay will work and giving us a first look at the title coming to both Android and iOS devices.

The game uses augmented reality features to blend real world objects and locations with the gameplay, and the company today gave the run down and a look at how exactly that will work:

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AlphaGo recovers from early error to beat Sedol in fifth Go game, series ends 4-1

Cam Bunton Mar 15 2016 - 3:22 am PT

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Back when I was in high school, I remember our computer studies teacher telling us that a computer only does what it’s told to do, and so mistakes are not the machine’s, but rather the user’s. With neural networks and machine learning, that is no longer true. AlphaGo, DeepMind’s specialist Go-playing machine, has proved as much. AlphaGo has been programmed to learn from its mistakes, and can err all on its own.

The AI-powered system failed to recover from an error against Lee Sedol in their fourth game, and eventually lost. In the fifth game, however, it made a mistake and was able to win the series in seemingly dramatic fashion.

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World Go champion says he is “speechless” after Google’s AI beats him for the second time

Ben Lovejoy Mar 10 2016 - 5:11 am PT

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Google’s AI system AlphaGo, part of its DeepMind project, has again beaten world champion Lee Sedol – and looks like it may be on track to take the title in the next game. Engadget reports Sedol saying that he was left speechless by his defeat.

“I’m quite speechless,” said Lee in the post-match conference. “It was a clear loss on my part. From the beginning there was no moment I thought I was leading.”

DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis tweeted that AlphaGo “played some beautiful creative moves in this game” …

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Google’s Go champion-beating AI machine will have its next match livestreamed on YouTube

Cam Bunton Feb 5 2016 - 2:16 am PT

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Towards the backend of last month, it was revealed that Google had developed an AI machine so advanced, it could beat a French Go champion at one of the most challenging games to teach a machine. DeepMind’s AlphaGo machine beat European champion Fan Hui 5-0 at Go, a game which — although simple to learn — features millions of combinations. Because of this complexity, teaching a machine to play beyond an amateur level has been challenging.

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AlphaGo AI from Google’s DeepMind lab can now beat a human at Go

Abner Li Jan 27 2016 - 11:34 am PT

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In 2014, Google bought UK startup DeepMind, considered to be the premier lab working on artificial intelligence. Today, head Demis Hassabis announced that they built an AI that can beat a human being at the ancient Chinese game of Go. The game is widely considered to be a benchmark for an AI’s ability to think.

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Google releases ‘Ivy’ app for iOS, an experimental big number calculator

Jordan Kahn Jul 10 2015 - 12:21 pm PT

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Google has quietly launched a new iOS app today called Ivy that it describes as an experimental big number calculator.
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