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Move 37 and God’s Touch

On March 10th of 2016 at the Four Seasons hotel in Seoul, South Korea, man and machine faced off in the second of five games. The worlds of AI and Go would never be the same.

Published December 4, 2022
Categorized as Artificial Intelligence, The History of Artificial Intelligence Tagged Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning, Edgar Allen Poe, Games, Go, Lee Sedol, The Mechanical Turk

Lee Sedol vs Alphago

In games like Go, with more possible positions than the number of atoms in the universe, manually crunching through possibilities loses its punch. Enter neural networks.

Published November 27, 2022
Categorized as Artificial Intelligence, The History of Artificial Intelligence Tagged Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning, Edgar Allen Poe, Games, Go, Lee Sedol, The Mechanical Turk

Garry Kasparov Vs Deep Blue

Over a hundred and fifty years after Poe unmasked the Mechanical Turk, a real automated chess machine beats the best human player in the world.

Published November 19, 2022
Categorized as Artificial Intelligence, The History of Artificial Intelligence Tagged Artificial Intelligence, Chess, Deep Blue, Edgar Allen Poe, Games, Garry Kasparov, The Mechanical Turk

Edgar Allen Poe Vs The Mechanical Turk

Edgar Allen Poe was a science fiction author and a mystery writer. He also unmasked what may have been the world’s first hoax AI.

Published November 12, 2022
Categorized as Artificial Intelligence, The History of Artificial Intelligence Tagged Artificial Intelligence, automata, Chess, Edgar Allen Poe, Games, science fiction, The Mechanical Turk

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