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Artificial Intelligence goes further as Google AI defeats clinches ancient Chinese game series
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New York: Showing that the time of artificial intelligence (AI) is right here, Google-run AI programme “AlphaGo” on Saturday defeated 18-time world champion Lee Se-dol for the third consecutive time in Go — a complex Chinese board game that is considered the “quintessential unsolved problem” for machine intelligence.
The victory – that ensures a series win for AlphaGo — came in the third tie of the five-match series currently being held in Seoul, South Korea.
The tournament titled “Google Deepmind Challenge match” started on March 8 and will conclude on March 15. In a “no mercy rule,” the remaining games will be played on March 13 and March 15, The Verge reported.
“I do apologise for not being able to satisfy people’s expectations,” Se-dol said, who believes that he had no chance in the first game and missed opportunities in the second.
Despite his overall loss, he urged the people to continue to show interest in the remaining two games.
Se-dol is a South Korean professional Go player. As of February 2016, he ranked second in international titles, behind only Lee Chang-ho.
“I believe (Lee) would have been difficult to beat today (Saturday) by any other top professional,” said 9-dan pro player and match commentator Michael Redmond, who called AlphaGo a “work of art” that could revolutionise Go play in the future.
Go — a game of profound complexity — is played by more than 40 million people worldwide. The number of possible positions in the game are more than, as they say, the number of atoms in the universe.
Google’s taciturn AI arm “DeepMind” said that its programme “AlphaGo” combines an advanced tree search with deep neural networks. “Go is a very beautiful game and I think it teaches a lot about life, much more so than a game like chess,” Google co-founder and Alphabet president Sergey Brin was quoted as saying after the third game.
“When you watch really great Go players play, it is like a thing of beauty. So I’m very excited that we’ve been able to instil that level of beauty inside a computer. I’m really honoured to be here in the company of Lee Se-dol, such an incredible player, as well as the DeepMind team who’ve been working so hard on the beauty of a computer,” Brin added.
“To be honest we are a bit stunned and speechless,” said DeepMind founder Demis Hassabis, adding that, “AlphaGo can compute tens of thousand positions a second, but it’s amazing that Lee Se-dol is able to compete with that and push AlphaGo to the limit. We came here to challenge Lee Se-dol because we wanted to see what AlphaGo was capable of, and his amazing genius and creative skills have done that.”
In January, “AlphaGo” defeated Fan Hui – the European champion of the game that was developed in China 2,500 years ago.
Reportedly, Facebook is also working on beating Go and its CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that his artificial intelligence (AI) scientists are “getting close”.
“The ancient Chinese game of Go is one of the last games where the best human players can still beat the best artificial intelligence players. Scientists have been trying to teach computers to win at Go for 20 years,” he wrote in a post in January.
The first game mastered by a computer was noughts and crosses (also known as tic-tac-toe) in 1952. In 1997, IBM’s Deep Blue computer famously beat Garry Kasparov at chess.
The game involves players taking turns to place black or white stones on a board, trying to capture the opponent’s stones or surround empty space to make points of territory.
Lucknow: Vishal Singh, a renowned social worker from Lucknow, also known as Foodman, has once again made India proud. He was honored by the Happy Hands Gloves Cooperative Limited Company in Korathai, Thailand, for his work with the Hunger Free World Mission.
The Hunger Free World Mission’s meeting was held in Korathai, Thailand, under Vishal Singh’s leadership. Representatives from several countries, including Mr. Raja Dwivedi (Managing Director of Happy Hands Gloves Limited), Thailand Coordinator Mr. Raja Mishra, and member Mr. Varun Singh, attended the event.
Under Vishal Singh’s leadership, the attendees took a pledge to work together toward creating a hunger-free world.
Speaking on the occasion, Vishal Singh explained that the main goal of the Hunger Free World Mission is social participation. He said the mission is not just about feeding people but also about meeting other basic needs of those who are struggling. The mission focuses on helping families of terminally ill patients in hospitals by providing food and shelter. It also works to fulfill essential needs like education, jobs, and care for the elderly.
For the last 16 years, the Vijay Sri Foundation has been providing free services, benefiting thousands of people. Vishal Singh highlighted that the mission aims to gain global recognition like other organizations such as WHO, WWF, and Red Cross, which work for social causes.
During this meeting, Vishal Singh was appointed as the Chairman of the Hunger Free World Mission by representatives from various countries. They also discussed holding regular meetings in different countries to push the mission forward.
Business tycoon Dr. Abhishek Verma has also supported this humanitarian mission, vowing to promote the idea of “Seva Parmo Dharma” (Service is the highest duty) worldwide. Vishal Singh praised him, stating that people like Dr .Abhishek Verma inspire others to work for the betterment of society.
Recently, Romania’s Ambassador, Mr . Daniela Sezonov Ţane, invited Vishal Singh to the Romanian Embassy in Delhi, where they discussed the mission in detail. Impressed by his humanitarian work, she honored Vishal Singh and invited him to Romania to take the mission forward .
Food man Vishal Singh has been serving the people of India for the past 16 years. Through the Vijay Sri Foundation, he provides free meals to cancer patients & their families ,shelter, and education for women & children along with running free old-age homes in Lucknow.
In addition to his humanitarian work, Vishal Singh also addresses issues like crime and corruption through his role as Chairman of Seva Path Media and Managing Director of Vijay Sri Foundation.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Vishal Singh and his team worked tirelessly to provide food and help to the needy, including starving children, elderly citizens, and pregnant women. Despite contracting the virus himself, he continued to assist others after his recovery. He even created a life-saving oxygen regulator using household items, which was praised by doctors both in India and abroad.
In his address at the meeting, Vishal Singh spoke about his mission to create a hunger-free world. He pointed out that India’s large population, along with issues like unemployment and poverty, has caused the country to fall on the Hunger Index. He urged people to contribute just one handful of grains daily to help create a hunger-free world.
He concluded by saying that through social participation, we can empower the people around us, meet their basic needs, and work together to build a stronger, more prosperous, and developed society.
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