While the feat is impressive, AlphaGo learned to play the game by analyzing previous games played by humans. But as reports, a new version of the artificial intelligence called AlphaGo Zero has figured out how to master the game on its own, with no human input or manipulation—an advancement that has big implications for future AI development. According to a, previous versions of AlphaGo learned to play the game by studying matches between professional and strong amateur players, absorbing the rules of the game and successful strategies of play. AlphaGo Zero, however, did not look at any games played by humans.

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Instead, it was given the rules of the game and then played against itself, using reinforcement learning to teach itself right and wrong moves and long-term strategies. As the AI played the game, it updated its advanced neural network to better predict its opponent’s moves. The researchers watched as the AI mastered the game in real time. After three days it was able to defeat a previous version called AlphaGo Lee, which beat Korean Go master Lee Sedol in 4 out of 5 games in 2016.

After 21 days it bested AlphaGo Master, the version which beat 60 top Go players online and the world’s best player Ke Jie earlier this year. The latest version bested AlphaGo Master 100 games to 0.

After 40 days, it reached levels of play no one has seen before. The research appears in the journal.

“In a short space of time, AlphaGo Zero has understood all of the Go knowledge that has been accumulated by humans over thousands of years of playing,” lead researcher David Silver of Google's DeepMind. “Sometimes it’s actually chosen to go beyond that and discovered something that the humans hadn't even discovered in this time period and discovered new pieces of knowledge which are creative and novel in many ways.” As reports, AlphaGo Zero reached this level of mastery much more efficiently than its predecessors. While the previous iteration had 48 data processing units and played 30 million training games over the course of several months, Zero had only 4 processing units and played 4.9 million training games over three days.

“People tend to assume that machine learning is all about big data and massive amounts of computation but actually what we saw with AlphaGo Zero is that algorithms matter much more,” Silver tells AFP. But the research is about more than just mastering a board game. As reports, this type of tabula rasa, or blank slate, learning could lead to a new generation of general purpose artificial intelligence that could help solve problems in fields that can be well-simulated in a computer, like drug composition, protein folding or particle physics. By building its knowledge from the ground up without human biases or limitations, the algorithms could go in directions humans have not yet thought to look. While many people in the AI community see AlphaGo Zero as a big accomplishment, Gary Marcus, psychology professor at New York University who specializes in artificial intelligence, tells NPR's Kennedy that he doesn’t think the algorithm is truly tabula rasa because prior human knowledge went into the construction of the algorithm. He also doesn’t think tabula rasa AI is as important as it seems. “In biology, actual human brains are not tabula rasa.

I don't see the principal theoretical reason why you should do that, why you should abandon lots of knowledge that we have about the world,” he says. Even so, Alpha Go's rapid mastery of the game is impressive—and a bit frightening.

Tabula Rasa Overview Tabula Rasa Free Download for PC was an MMORPG developed by Destination Games and published by NCsoft, designed in part by some of the creators of Ultima Online including Richard Garriott. The game was a role-playing video game that blended certain shooter aspects into the combat system. It was officially released to retail on November 2, 2007, with customers that pre-ordered the game allowed access to the live servers from October 30, 2007. The development team released updates, called «Deployments,» nearly every month following launch. The game required a monthly subscription.

Tabula Rasa was about humanity's last stand against a group of aliens called the Bane. The story took place in the near future on two planets, Arieki and Foreas, which were in a state of constant conflict between the AFS (Allied Free Sentients) and the Bane. The term tabula rasa means «clean slate» in Latin, which refers to a fresh start, or starting over. Tabula Rasa Download free Full Version. According to the developers, the game included the ability for players to influence the outcome of a war between the player characters and the NPCs.

Tabula Rasa closed on February 28, 2009, with servers slated to become free to play on January 10, 2009. Background Tabula Rasa was set in a fictional universe were the humanity has its last stand against a group of aliens called the Bane. The story took place in the near future on two planets, Arieki and Foreas, which were in a state of constant conflict between the AFS (Allied Free Sentients) and the Bane. The term tabula rasa means «clean slate» in Latin, which refers to a fresh start, or starting over.

According to the fictional background story in Tabula Rasa, there once was an advanced alien species known as the Eloh. They freely shared their knowledge of how to convert between matter and energy with just the mind, called Logos, to other less advanced races. One of these less advanced races, the Thrax, used this power to wage war against the Eloh, a war which the Eloh won but at a great cost. This led to a great divide in the Eloh. One faction wanted to keep on spreading the knowledge as they had before. The other, called the Neph, sought to control the development of «lesser races» to ensure they, the Neph, would always be the superior species.

This inner conflict led the Neph faction to leave the Eloh and seek other allies, among them the defeated Thrax; this species along with others joined to form the Bane, which is controlled by the Neph. Tabula Rasa Game free Download Full Version. As one of their first acts, they attacked the Eloh world; the surviving Eloh fled and were scattered among the worlds they had previously visited. The Bane attacked Earth sometime in our near future. Humanity was hopelessly outmatched and the majority was completely wiped out. Luckily, the Eloh had left behind some of their technology that had the ability to make wormholes to other worlds.

There, humans found other species doing the same thing they had, fighting against the Bane to survive. They banded together to form the Army of the Allied Free Sentients to fight against the Bane. According to information from the game's manual, it's been roughly 5 years since Earth was attacked. It was eventually discovered that Earth had not been destroyed as once thought, but had instead become a massive staging ground for the Bane. From there they strengthened their forces and increased attacks upon the AFS. Gameplay Combat The combat mixed in some aspects from shooters to add some real time action elements to the game. It still was not an outright shooter and featured sticky targeting and dice rolling based on character stats underneath.

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Stickiness could be adjusted to fit the preference of the player. Some weapons like the shotgun did not use the sticky targeting.

In addition to a hit-miss system, Tabula Rasa adjusted the damage based on the situation. Real-time factors like weapon type, ammo type, stance, cover, and movement were taken into account. The enemies were reported to have AI that would try to take advantage of the terrain, their numbers, and would try to flank the players.

All this mix of system based combat and realtime movement and physics system created a gameplay which encouraged the player to think tactically; e.g. To take cover behind a pillar to get some time to reload the weapon while the enemies were getting into position again. Tabula Rasa game free Download for PC Full Version. Missions & storytelling Missions will be given out by NPCs but will not be static. What missions are available and even the access to the NPCs themselves are subject to how the battlefield is going.

Some may be specific to control points that the player will need to reclaim from the Bane to gain access again. Missions are also to have multiple options to take. One example is destroying a dam to stop Bane forces that will also demolish a local village. A player can choose to just destroy or try to warn the village beforehand risking further advances by the Bane. Referred to as «ethical parables» they are to make up about 20% of all missions. The missions the player chooses to do and the choices made during them will change the way certain NPCs treat the player's character.

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Some missions will deliver the player's character to private instanced spaces. One design goal of the game is to use instanced spaces to create in-depth storytelling, with puzzles, traps, and NPCs, that would be more difficult in shared spaces. Some missions will be ethically challenging. The players will have to choose from different points of view and it can alter their future progress. «Ethical and moral dilemmas are something we definitely wanted to incorporate into the design of Tabula Rasa from the very start. The entire goal is to give you pause and allow you to think about the choices that they make in order to accomplish a mission.» Logos Logos is a pictographic language left behind by the Eloh to be understood by other races.

As players go through the game, they will gain Logos symbols to add to their Logos tablet, a blank slate, and begin to learn the language found throughout the game and gain special powers. Logos can be considered the equivalent of magic for Tabula Rasa, inasmuch as magic allows for incredible, otherwise unexplained acts; however, the logos are shown to be an extension of a scientific process developed by the Eloh. Players can improve these abilities and the upgraded versions can add new tactical uses.

Some are universal while others are class specific. Some examples range from lightning bolt attacks, sprinting, reinforcements, and poison type powers. These are very hard to find, being hidden throughout Tabula Rasa. Character creation Tabula Rasa had a tree character class system. Everyone started out as first «tier» (branch) Recruit and as they progress they were able to branch out.

The second «tier» included the Soldier and Specialist, which in turn had two subclasses of their own each. There were a total of 4 tiers. Tabula Rasa also had a cloning function at each tier. It worked like a save function for characters at the branching point and allowed the player to try out the other branch without having to repeat the first several levels. Introduced in patch 1.4.6 were the hybrid characters. These were humans who have had their DNA blended with either Thrax, Forean or Brann DNA to produce different stats and bonuses to the character. Only full humans were available at the beginning, with the hybrid DNA becoming available via quest chains during play which in turn unlocked the ability to create hybrids on that server at the creation screen, or via cloning.

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