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novel(adj)
Original: It shows it's the novel algorithms that count...
Definition:the condition of new, original
My own sentence:
The novel idea is the key to the success of our product.
Synonym: new, orignial

hype(noun)
Original: I wrote earlier this week about the tidal wave of AI hype...
Definition: a deception or racket
My own sentence:
My friend is so annoyed by the mail hype he receives on his phone recently.
Synonym: Deception, racket

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I haven't really look into the field of artificial intelligence because that is not a part of my major. But I was really shocked about the news. The advance in AI is definitely a revolutionary development in human history. In a way it can completely change the lives we live right now. But what I concern more is the ethnical problems brought by the AIs. Like the debate on colones, whether AIs are considered human or should they be granted human right would be a huge discussion. And if, given the tremendous ability AIs have on study, that one day they jump out of the digital confinement, what is going to happen then?

Answers:
1) I used to play Chinese Chess at the age of 10 and I had played for two years before I quit. That chess game was really interesting to play actually yet for some reasons I got that too late after I had decided to quit when I was young. Now I basically have no time for it.

3)Yes, why not? The robots with high intelligences can help achieve a lot of things human cannot do like investigate Mars, besides the fact that AIs improve living quality.

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Article 1: Google DeepMind: AI becomes more alien

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Article 1: Google DeepMind: AI becomes more alien

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Discipline: Science/Technology
Summary: The AlphaGo program has made a big breakthrough, which is AlphaGo Zero, in AI by getting dominance in Chinese chess (围棋, or Go).
Response: As a student whose major is highly relevant to computer science, I'm extremely pleasant to see such a wonderful advance in AI because AlphaGo Zero is capable of applying an special algorithm, which is analyzing all of possible movements by itself. But I still wonder if the advanced AI will totally replace human beings because it touches much farther and more efficient than us.  Will AI control people in the future like we develop them? Although I know that human beings are different from AI because people have emotion, I'm still confusing if our emotion will be converted into a great number of "cold" codes.
DQs:
1) Have you ever tried some intelligence movement like Chinese chess? What do you think about that?
2) List some applications which take advantage of AI.
3) If you are a member of the AlphaGo group, will you continue to develop AI? Why?

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Google's DeepMind says it has made another big advance in artificial intelligence by getting a machine to master the Chinese game of Go without help from human players.

The AlphaGo program, devised by the tech giant's AI division, has already beaten two of the world's best players.

It had started by learning from thousands of games played by humans.

But the new AlphaGo Zero began with a blank Go board and no data apart from the rules, and then played itself.

Within 72 hours it was good enough to beat the original program by 100 games to zero.

DeepMind's chief executive, Demis Hassabis, said the system could now have more general applications in scientific research.

"We're quite excited because we think this is now good enough to make some real progress on some real problems even though we're obviously a long way from full AI," he told the BBC and other journalists.

The London-based artificial intelligence company's software defeated leading South Korean Go player Lee Se-dol by four games to one last year.

In a game where there are more possible moves than there are atoms in the universe, it was a triumph for machine over man and one that came much earlier than many in the AI world had expected.

AlphaGo followed this with the defeat of the world's number one Go player, China's Ke Jie, in May.

As with many advances in this field, the achievements required the combination of vast amounts of data - in this case records of thousands of games - and a lot of computer-processing power.

David Silver, who led that effort, says the team took a very different approach with AlphaGo Zero.

"The new version starts from a neural network that knows nothing at all about the game of Go," he explained.

"The only knowledge it has is the rules of the game. Apart from that, it figures everything out just by playing games against itself."

What is Go?

Go is thought to date back to ancient China, several thousand years ago.

Using black and white stones on a grid, players gain the upper hand by surrounding their opponents' pieces with their own.

The rules are simpler than those of chess, but a player typically has a choice of 200 moves at most points in the game, compared with about 20 in chess.

It can be very difficult to determine who is winning, and many of the top human players rely on instinct.

This has turned out to be far more efficient way of addressing the problem.

Whereas AlphaGo took months to get to the point where it could take on a professional, AlphaGo Zero got there in just three days, using a fraction of the processing power.

"It shows it's the novel algorithms that count, not the compute power or the data," says Mr Silver.

He enthuses about an idea some may find rather scary - that in just a few days a machine has surpassed the knowledge of this game acquired by humanity over thousands of years.

"We've actually removed the constraints of human knowledge and it's able, therefore, to create knowledge itself from first principles, from a blank slate," he said.

Whereas earlier versions quickly learned from and improved upon human strategies, AlphaGo Zero developed techniques which the professional player who advised DeepMind said he had never seen before.

Many of the team have now moved on to new projects where they are trying to take this technique to new areas. Demis Hassabis mentions drug design and the discovery of new materials as areas of interest.

Whereas some see a threat from AI, he looks ahead with optimism.

"I hope these kind of algorithms will be routinely working with us as scientific experts medical experts on advancing the frontiers of science and medicine - that's what I hope," he says.

But he and his colleagues are cautious about how rapidly we will see the wider application of these AI techniques - a game with clear rules and no element of luck is one thing, the messy, random, unpredictable real world quite another.

I wrote earlier this week about the tidal wave of AI hype pouring into my email inbox. AlphaGo Zero is at the other end of the spectrum - proper peer-reviewed science with a real advance in computer intelligence.

We need to keep a close eye on the ethical dilemmas involved in developing a machine that, by some definitions, can think for itself - especially when it is controlled by a giant like Google.

But for now, there are few signs that AlphaGo Zero and its ilk will either steal our jobs or threaten to make humanity obsolete.

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Google's DeepMind says it has made another big advance in artificial intelligence by getting a machine to master the Chinese game of Go without help from human players. The AlphaGo program, devised by the tech giant's AI division, has already beaten two of the world's best players.

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1. ilk (n)
Original: "...there are few signs that AlphaGo Zero and its ilk will (either) steal our jobs..."
Definition: a type of person
My own sentence: People of your ilk are brave and frank.
Synonyms: like

2. obsolete (adj)
Original: "...AlphaGo Zero and its ilk will [neither] steal our jobs [nor] threaten to make humanity obsolete."
Definition: no longer in use
My own sentence: The paper books will not be obsolete items in the future.
Synonyms: disused, noncurrent