From gobble to zen

the quest for truly intelligent software and the Monte Carlo revolution in go

Ralf Funke

pp. 177-186

in: Jan Romportl, Eva Zackova, Jozef Kelemen (eds), Beyond artificial intelligence, Berlin, Springer, 2015

Abstract

After the success of chess programming, culminating in Deep Blue, many game programers and advocates of Artificial Intelligence thought that the Asian game of Go would provide a new fruitful field for research. It seemed that the game was too complex to be mastered with anything but new methods mimicking human intelligence. In the end, though, a breakthrough came from applying statistical methods.