Nothing "bad" about desperate overplays while losing from Alpha Go's perspective. In the same way that it doesn't care about winning by more than a half point, it doesn't mind making its loss more crushing. Invade every territory. If it doesn't work, you lose by a bit more. Boo hoo. If it works, you might winl
I'm very interested in the fact that they coded a "resign" function into it. I wouldn't have expected that.
Nothing "bad" about desperate overplays while losing from Alpha Go's perspective.
That's not what happened. T9 wasn't a desperate overplay. It was just bad. J10 might have made more sense as desperate overplay.
There have been a couple of brief discussions of this in the Open Thread, but it seems likely to generate more so here's a place for it.
The original paper in Nature about AlphaGo.
Google Asia Pacific blog, where results will be posted. DeepMind's YouTube channel, where the games are being live-streamed.
Discussion on Hacker News after AlphaGo's win of the first game.