Go and AI

This probably won't interest most people but as an occasional player of Go and someone who is interested in AI I found this fascinating. You need to read the whole article if you haven't heard of Go to appreciate the implications of this development.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-35785875

I've never really got the hang of Go.

I've tried to play a few times (even bought a Go board and counters once) but never really fully understood the intricacies of the game.

I guess it was obvious one day that a super computer which can calculate all possible moves in a blink would one day beat the world champion.

Maybe now we could borrow the computer for a while and see if it can work out how to get the club out of its financial mess!

Computers were winning at chess 30 years ago so it's a measure of the complexity of Go that it's taken so long to create a competitive one. Had to be AI as the number of position permutations is practically infinite.