A look back at “Move 37”, a watershed AI moment from AlphaGo's 2016 Go victory, as math witnesses similar breakthroughs where AI makes surprising discoveries
A decade ago, a computer did something that no human would have done. It was considered a breakthrough for AI.
Really enjoyed talking to @bzcohen about AlphaGo's famous move 37 and the significance of it 10 years on for math and science breakthroughs in verifiable domains
A decade ago, a computer did something that no human would have done. It was considered a breakthrough for AI. Now the world is full of them. https://www.wsj.com/...
Move 37 is the move AlphaGo played against the world Go champion that a human makes about once in 10,000 games. Weeks before it played that move, the same program was losing its practice games and wouldn't have won the match at all. The real reason it happened was a new chip the …
Move 37 started the modern AI era. A decade later, the entire world is beginning to feel like a Go board. I spoke with @demishassabis about math, centaur science and this Move 37 moment: https://www.wsj.com/... [image]