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VikingCoder on March 12, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: AlphaGo shows its true strength in 3rd victory aga...

A neural network beating a top human at Go? Cripes, if Marvin Minsky didn't say it would never happen, I'd be stunned.

phire on March 13, 2016 [–]

Technically, it's two neural networks, each calculating reasonably simple functions (an estimate of the value of a board position and an estimate of which moves might be good) combined with a tree search algorithm.

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