Prompt #4: Considering Delivery and Style

Guozhuoyan Zhang

What I found from date bases are the journal article and the newspaper article. All of them are giving discussions about the Artificial Intelligence AlphaGo from Google.

From the journal one, it has mentioned the example of the chess match between Deep Blue and Kasparov in 1996. The difficulty and complexity of the chess is compared with Go in order to show the evolution of AlphaGo in artificial intelligence field these past years. At the end of this post, it says that DeepMind group is challenging Lee Sedol who was the world champion of Go before.

AlphaGo works in two parts. When it is the computer's turn, the program first suggests moves based on the sorts of general tactics that human players have used in the past--much as Deep Blue would. Then the second part of the system sifts those moves for those that look like they might lead to a win, again based on patterns it has picked up through memorising zillions of previous games.

And the newspaper article also raised the instance of Deep Blue Vs Kasparov. To make sure that the winning of chess is realized by calculation power instead of the ability of studying. Their conclusion is that AlphaGo gained the humanlike abilities to learn and used skills like human. Deep neural networks will make AlphaGo discover new strategies itself.

AlphaGo uses two so-called deep neural networks, computer programs with millions of connections that loosely mimic the structure of the human brain. This approach has produced several artificial-intelligence breakthroughs in recent years, including computers that can identify objects in images more consistently than humans can.

In summary, both of two are raising the same examples but give different depth of analysis. The newspaper article is citing more information from DeepMind team members who designed the AlphaGo and makes it more convictive. The journal one is comparative general, and it is using a normal tone to illustrate the characteristics of AlphaGo. I would recommend the newspaper one because it provides more objective explanation to the audiences.


Works Cited

Barr, Alistair, and Jack Nicas. "Google Parent Claims Artificial-Intelligence Victory in Go Game Win; Alphabet's AlphaGo Beats Top Human Player of Go Game on Full Board, a Milestone Challenge." Wall Street Journal (Online) Jan 27 2016. ProQuest. Web. 14 Mar. 2016.

"Computer says Go; Artificial intelligence." The Economist 30 Jan. 2016: 72(US). Infotrac Newsstand. Web. 14 Mar. 2016.

Image Credit

http://thenewstack.io/google-ai-beats-human-champion-complex-game-ever-invented/