Crazy Stone Deep Learning The First Edition 🏆

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Before the deep learning explosion of 2016, there was . And in 2014, the world saw its true turning point: Crazy Stone Deep Learning, The First Edition . Crazy Stone Deep Learning The First Edition

This wasn’t just another software update. It was the first time an AI beat a professional human player (Yoshio Ishida, 9p) at even odds using a neural network. Liked this

He kept the MCTS engine, but he added a as a "co-pilot." This wasn’t just another software update

Crazy Stone Deep Learning, The First Edition wasn't perfect. But it was the first time a machine stopped looking like a calculator and started looking like a Go player.

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This worked well for amateurs but hit a wall at the professional level. Why? MCTS is terrible at intuition . It doesn't know a good shape from a bad one; it just knows brute-force probability. The "First Edition" of Crazy Stone with deep learning was a hybrid beast. The developer, Rémi Coulom (a French programmer), did something radical.