It's been an exciting (and somewhat sleep deprived) week watching these games.
It's been an exciting (and somewhat sleep deprived) week watching these games. Melinda Green has some positive thoughts on the outcome of the match.
Originally shared by Melinda Green
Here is the board position and Lee Sedol at the moment when he resigned the match to AlphaGo. You'll be hearing a lot about this stunning achievement in the news with some people gushing about the technology and others wailing about the blow to humanity's collective ego. I'd like to offer another perspective on what I think it all means.
Yes, it's the end of an era, but it's also the beginning of an amazing new one. But not the age of SkyNet and killer robots, though certainly some of that is coming, and definitely not the end of human dominance and evolution. I like to think of our artificially intelligent creations as our silicon children. And just like all good parents hope for their children to do better than they did, I feel very proud at this moment and want to celebrate that with you.
So what happens now? You'll probably hear lots of people desperately searching for some other area in which humans are still superior to machines. Don't fall into that trap. I think the best way to see where this will all end up will be to watch what happens now in the Go-playing community. Some members are worrying that this will bring about the end of their favorite game, but others see the advantages in having Go-playing bots that are stronger than any human because they'll make us better players. They'll teach us exciting new things about this game that we love so much and inject new life into it.
But that's just a glimpse of what's to come because the techniques used to develop these strong Go-playing bots are directly applicable to all sorts of difficult problems in science and medicine and even in our daily lives. Self-driving cars are an emerging technology in this area that is going to greatly improve our lives by resolving one of the most dangerous situations we face every day. We'll see more and more of these sorts of developments where the machines take better care of us than we've been able to do. And just in time too given the seriousness of some of our most urgent and intractable problems with climate and the environment, and even in geopolitics. I think today's stunning result marks a real turning point in history, just when we need it the most. So hooray for the AlphaGo team and the rest of us!
Originally shared by Melinda Green
Here is the board position and Lee Sedol at the moment when he resigned the match to AlphaGo. You'll be hearing a lot about this stunning achievement in the news with some people gushing about the technology and others wailing about the blow to humanity's collective ego. I'd like to offer another perspective on what I think it all means.
Yes, it's the end of an era, but it's also the beginning of an amazing new one. But not the age of SkyNet and killer robots, though certainly some of that is coming, and definitely not the end of human dominance and evolution. I like to think of our artificially intelligent creations as our silicon children. And just like all good parents hope for their children to do better than they did, I feel very proud at this moment and want to celebrate that with you.
So what happens now? You'll probably hear lots of people desperately searching for some other area in which humans are still superior to machines. Don't fall into that trap. I think the best way to see where this will all end up will be to watch what happens now in the Go-playing community. Some members are worrying that this will bring about the end of their favorite game, but others see the advantages in having Go-playing bots that are stronger than any human because they'll make us better players. They'll teach us exciting new things about this game that we love so much and inject new life into it.
But that's just a glimpse of what's to come because the techniques used to develop these strong Go-playing bots are directly applicable to all sorts of difficult problems in science and medicine and even in our daily lives. Self-driving cars are an emerging technology in this area that is going to greatly improve our lives by resolving one of the most dangerous situations we face every day. We'll see more and more of these sorts of developments where the machines take better care of us than we've been able to do. And just in time too given the seriousness of some of our most urgent and intractable problems with climate and the environment, and even in geopolitics. I think today's stunning result marks a real turning point in history, just when we need it the most. So hooray for the AlphaGo team and the rest of us!
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