Why was go a more difficult game for AI to play than chess?

It has long been considered a difficult challenge in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) and is considerably more difficult to solve than chess. Many in the field of artificial intelligence consider Go to require more elements that mimic human thought than chess.

Can an AI beat the best chess player?

World chess champion Garry Kasparov (left) playing against IBM’s supercomputer Deep Blue in 1996 during the ACM Chess Challenge in Philadelphia. IBM’s Deep Blue made history in 1997 when it became the first machine to beat a reigning world chess champion.

How much harder is Go than Chess?

After the first two moves of a Chess game, there are 400 possible next moves. In Go, there are close to 130,000. “The search space in Go is vast… a number greater than there are atoms in the universe,” Google wrote in a January blog post about the game.

Is Go more popular than Chess?

Go is the most popular ‘Chess’ in the world in terms of number of people playing, even Xiangqi maybe more popular than Chess. If you go to a forum in China, few will know what Western Chess is.

What did Garry Kasparov say about AI?

“We live in a world where machines are playing bigger and bigger roles. Whether you like it or not, it’s happening,” he said. “There is simply no evidence that machines are threatening us. The real danger comes not from killer robots but from people — because people still have a monopoly on evil.”

What happened to Kasparov?

Kasparov is currently chairman of the Human Rights Foundation and chairs its International Council. In 2017, he founded the Renew Democracy Initiative (RDI), an American political organization promoting and defending liberal democracy in the U.S. and abroad. He serves as chairman of the group.

Why is Go better than Chess?

Go is simpler than Chess and yet more complex. Simpler because all pieces are the same, just black and white, and in Go the pieces do not move around the board. But unlike Chess, Go offers a well balanced handicap system which allows a stronger player to play evenly against a weaker player and be fully challenged.

Is Go complicated?

Go is a very simple (not complicated) game. It’s also a very complex game.

Can a computer make chess better than humans?

“Instead of making computer chess stronger and trashing humans, we can focus on chess as an art in the form of a game,” says Eli David, a researcher at Bar-Ilan University in Israel who has built machine-learning-powered chess engines of his own.

Did deep Blue Beat the world’s greatest chess player?

World Chess champion Garry Kasparov (left) ponders a chess move during the sixth and final game of his match with IBM’s Deep Blue computer on May 11, 1997. When the IBM computer Deep Blue beat the world’s greatest chess player, Garry Kasparov, in the last game of a six-game match on May 11, 1997, the world was astonished.

Will we see a system like AlphaZero in chess?

“Now we see a system like AlphaZero used for creative exploration in tandem with humans rather than opposed to them.” People have played chess for around 1,500 years, and tweaks to the rules aren’t new. Nor are grumbles that computers have made the game boring.

How has AI changed the way we define intelligence?

The changes in how scientists define intelligence also show the complexity of certain kinds of AI tasks, Campbell said. Deep Blue might have been one of the most advanced computers at the time, but it was built to play chess, and only that.