A prize of over 26 million yen will be given to the developer of Go AI `` AlphaGo ''

On April 1, 2020, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) , an international society in the field of computer science, presented the `` ACM Prize in Computing '' award to individuals who made significant contributions to the development of computing technology 2019. Announced the winners of the year. The winner was David Silver, a technologist at Google-owned artificial intelligence company DeepMind , known for developing AlphaGo .

ACM Prize in Computing Awarded to AlphaGo Developer
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ACM Awarded Their Computing Prize To An AlphaGo Developer
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While chess and shogi champions are being beaten by AI one after another, artificial intelligence (AI), which beats professional chess players in Go, did not readily appear, so Go is the last table game in which humans can beat AI. fort ( Bird ) It has been said. However, Lee Sedol, who was called the “Maou of the Korean chess world” in the game held in 2016 and was well-known as the world's strongest chess player, defeated AlphaGo 4-1 . With this in mind, Lee Sedol later decides to retire from professional chess .

You can see how AlphaGo defeated Lee Sedol in one shot by reading the following article.

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SilverMind, the lead researcher at DeepMind, supported AlphaGo's victory. The development team, led by Silver, has crafted AlphaGo's algorithm by skillfully combining traditional tree search , deep learning , reinforcement learning , and massive computing. AlphaGo created in this way is recognized as an important result of AI research, and in the `` Top 10 Discoveries in the Last 10 Years ' ' featured by the scientific journal New Scientist, AlphaGo discovered Higgs particles and developed CRISPR genome editing technology , Ranked fourth after gravitational wave observation .

Silver's team later developed AlphaGo Zero , a go AI that goes beyond AlphaGo, and AlphaZero , which goes even further. In 2019, it also created the AlphaStar, which beat video gamers over professional gamers.

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In recognition of these achievements, ACM has decided to award Mr. Silver an ACM Prize in Computing. The award recognizes those who have made 'early to mid-term innovative contributions in computing', and the winner was a $ 250,000 prize from Infosys, a major IT company in India. That is.

ACM Chairman Cherri M. Pancake said, 'No researcher has been as exciting in the AI field as Silver. Since the competition between humans and machines has been an AI application for many years, AlphaGo has become a go world champion, Lee Sedol. His defeat in March 2016 was watched by people all over the world via TV broadcasts, but that was just the beginning of the impact that Silver had brought, and his deep reinforcement learning findings Since then, it has been used in many areas, including improving the efficiency of the UK power grid, reducing power consumption in Google's data centers , and planning the trajectory for the European Space Agency's (ESA) spacecraft. ' Praised the study.

'We celebrate Silver's dedication to deep reinforcement learning and the breakthrough in cutting-edge AI technology,' said Pravin Rao , Chief Operating Officer of Infosys. Winning the rules table game stimulated the imagination of the public and attracted young researchers to areas such as machine learning, especially the framework developed by Silver and his colleagues in all areas of AI. Is important in helping businesses and businesses perform practical tasks for years to come, so we provide financial support for ACM Prizeing for Computing, and as a member of ACM, We are proud to be awarding experts. '

Silver's awarded ACM Prize in Computing will be officially awarded at the ACM annual awards ceremony in San Francisco in June 2020.