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.
Tag: Games
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.
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.
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.
The Sympathetic Universe, Part 3
Whoops, the Entity had missed something. It rewound the reality. It couldn’t seem to get to precisely what it was looking for, so it switched to a four-dimensional view. Finally, it found the moment (measured in millenia in our time) where the Neanderthals got eradicated, and moved back to automatic progression through the time dimension.…… Continue reading The Sympathetic Universe, Part 3
The Sympathetic Universe: Part 2
The BABBBABBABABAABBBABABBBBABABABBBBBBBABABAA family, whom we shall refer to as the BAA family played hundreds of millions of “change one thing” games. This continued until a new game appeared. This game was special in that it could be entirely different each time. The initiating entity would create a reality. Much like “change one thing,” the entities…… Continue reading The Sympathetic Universe: Part 2
Antepenultimas
That’s the twenty-ninth of December in layman’s terms. The day before the next to last day of the year. Ok, not really. In fact, it’s the plural of “antepenultima” which is a term in poetry referring to the syllable before the next to last syllable of a word. Let me explain the reason I would offer…… Continue reading Antepenultimas
Samuel Munk 