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It's the first time I read about the FineArt Go bot (by Tencent?). Is there any more information about it? How does it compare to AlphaGo? What software/algorithms does it use?


Some links about FineArt.

In English

http://technode.com/2017/03/20/tencents-fine-art-wins-comput...

https://qz.com/936654/googles-alpha-go-now-has-a-serious-gam...

In Chinese

http://tech.qq.com/a/20170319/015726.htm

https://www.huxiu.com/article/186238.html

From the second English link:

> As Tencent’s tech blog explains (link in Chinese), FineArts works in a similar way to AlphaGo. Both AIs comprise two computer systems modeled on the human brain, which can be trained on large data sets. One part of the system, the “policy network,” predicts which of the possible moves are the likeliest to be played. The other, the “value network,” then evaluates which of those is likeliest to win


Ah, so Tencent is a company. "Chinese tech giant Tencent". They did QQ and WeChat. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tencent

It seems as if they are even bigger than Baidu (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baidu) which is maybe more known (at least by me).

It seems this is the website of the group (the Tencent AI lab) which developed the FineArt Go bot: http://ai.tencent.com/ailab/

Here some article from Tencent about their Go bot (in Chinese): http://ai.tencent.com/ailab/%E5%86%8D%E5%88%9B%E4%BD%B3%E7%B...

There is also a Wikipedia article about the Fine Art Go bot: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fine_Art_(software)

Along the line, I also read about DeepZenGo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen_(software)


Tencent is huge, they also own League of Legends and recently just made a $1B investment in Tesla.

The only comparable Chinese tech company is Alibaba.




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