Play To Transform MISC

Will Playing Make AI More Human? On March 15, 2016, Google's AI program, AlphaGo, beat world champion Lee Sedol four-to-one in one of the most complex strategy games ever devised – the ancient Chinese game of Go. Since that historic match, Google has released a new version of its AI agent, called AlphaGo Zero, which defeated its predecessor by 100 games to 0. Unlike AlphaGo, which relied on big data, machine learning, and advanced algorithms, AlphaGo Zero started learning Go on its own, from scratch. Starting with a very primitive understanding of the game, AlphaGo Zero created a duplicate of itself, playing itself repeatedly and using what it learned in each match to advance and update its algorithms. Beginning with random play, it took AlphaGo Zero only 40 days to master the game and become the world's best player.