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After beating the world champion in Go, Deepmind, who created the AI, started from scratch with AlphaGo Zero. On day zero, AlphaGo Zero had no prior knowledge of the game Go, and was only given the basic rules as input. Three hours later, AGZ was already playing like a beginner, forging long-term strategy to focus on greedily capturing as many stones as possible. But within nineteen hours, this had changed. AGZ had by then learned the fundamentals of Go strategies, such as life-and-death, influence and territory. Within seventy hours it was playing at superhuman level and had surpassed the abilities of AlphaGo, the version that beat world champion Lee Sedol.
After twenty-one days, it had reached the level of AlphaGo Master, the version that defeated sixty top professionals on line and the world champion, Ke Jie, in a three-out-of-three game. By day forty, AGZ surpassed all other versions of Alpha Go and, arguably, the newly born intelligent being had already become the smartest being in existence on the task it had set out to learn.
It learned all this on its own, entirely from self-play, with no human intervention and using no historical data. At the speed of AI, forty-five days is equivalent to the entire history of human evolution.
Scary Smart, Mo Gawdat
After twenty-one days, it had reached the level of AlphaGo Master, the version that defeated sixty top professionals on line and the world champion, Ke Jie, in a three-out-of-three game. By day forty, AGZ surpassed all other versions of Alpha Go and, arguably, the newly born intelligent being had already become the smartest being in existence on the task it had set out to learn.
It learned all this on its own, entirely from self-play, with no human intervention and using no historical data. At the speed of AI, forty-five days is equivalent to the entire history of human evolution.
Scary Smart, Mo Gawdat
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