Friday, April 11, 2008

Supercomputer Beats Go Master

More Complex Than Chess, More Possible Combinations Than the Number of Particles in the Universe Supercomputer Beats Go Master: "During the Go Tournament in Paris, staged between 22 and 24 March 2008 by the French Go Federation (FFG), the MoGo artificial intelligence (IA) engine developed by INRIA -- the French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control -- running on a Bull NovaScale supercomputer, won a 9x9 game of Go against professional 5th DAN Catalin Taranu. This was the first ever officially sanctioned 'non blitz' victory of a 'machine' over a Go Master."

It was just a 9x9 board, but still an impressive step for AI.