Archives for AlphaGo

17 Jun

How AI Is Changing The Dynamics Of Wildlife Conservation

In October last year, officials discovered a maggot-infested body of Solo, a young tigress, in Bandhavgarh National Park in India. A case of suspected poisoning, her death was a testament to how conventional wildlife conservation methods have failed.  Hundreds of animals lose their lives to varied causes– floods, fire, and poisoning to poaching, every year.…

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01 Apr

ACM Awarded Their Computing Prize To An AlphaGo Developer

ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, has recently announced their ‘2019 ACM Prize in Computing’. And, this year they awarded David Silver for breakthrough advances in computer game-playing. David works at University College London as a professor and at DeepMind as a Principal Research Scientist, and has also been recognised as a critical individual in…

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21 Mar

Top 6 Baselines For Reinforcement Learning Algorithms On Games

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Games like chess, GO, and Atari have become testbeds of testing deep reinforcement learning algorithms. Companies like DeepMind and OpenAI have done a tremendous amount of research into this field and have set up gyms that can be used to train reinforcement learning agents.Here we take a look at top works that have set a […]

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29 Nov

Go Master Lee Se-Dol Quits Game Because Of AI, But That Doesn’t Mean We All Should

On Wednesday, 18-time world Go champion, Lee Se-Dol called it a day saying AI cannot be defeated in the game. Lee Se-dol chose to bow out three years after he lost the series against Google’s AlphaGo in 2016. In this article, we will look at when and how humans were able to defeat AI over…

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15 Jan

MachineHack Winners: How A Student, A Statistician & An Analyst Solved The Pets Breed Classification Challenge

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MachineHack recently concluded the Who Let The Dogs Out: Pets Breed Classification hackathon and announced prizes in the form of exclusive passes to the Machine Learning Developers Summit (MLDS), India’s largest summit for machine learning developers. Analytics India Magazine talked to the winners of the hackathon to get insights into their journey in data science…

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02 Jan

Reinforcement Learning Goes Beyond Gaming & Robotics, Will Become A Game Changer In 2019

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Is Reinforcement Learning a new trend in data science? Reinforcement learning (RL) is changing the state of each and every sector globally. It is a machine learning technique through which a machine/software can learn to function by itself in an environment. The algorithms push the agent to perform different actions in order to achieve rewards.…

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