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Google’s latest Go victory shows machines are no longer just learning, they’re teaching
Mark Robert Anderson, Edge Hill University Just over 20 years ago was the first time a computer beat a human world champion in a chess match, when IBM’s Deep Blue supercomputer beat Gary Kasparov in a narrow victory of 3½ games to 2½. Just under a decade later, machines were deemed to have conquered the […]
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Twenty years on from Deep Blue vs Kasparov: how a chess match started the big data revolution
Mark Robert Anderson, Edge Hill University On the seventh move of the crucial deciding game, black made what some now consider to have been a critical error. When black mixed up the moves for the Caro-Kann defence, white took advantage and created a new attack by sacrificing a knight. In just 11 more moves, white […]
