After “narrowly” beating the world’s top Go player, what’s left for Google’s AlphaGo AI? Engadget reports:
Now that it has nothing left to prove, the AI is hanging up its boots and leaving the world of competitive Go behind. AlphaGo’s developers from Google-owned DeepMind will now focus on creating advanced general algorithms to help scientists find elusive cures for diseases, conjure up a way to dramatically reduce energy consumption and invent new revolutionary materials. Before they leave Go behind completely, though, they plan to publish one more paper later this year to reveal how they tweaked the AI to prepare it for the matches against Ke Jie. They’re also developing a tool that would show how AlphaGo would respond to a particular situation on the Go board with help from the world’s number one player. While you’ll have to wait a while for those two, you’ll soon be able to watch 50 games AlphaGo played against itself when it was training

The first ten games that AlphaGo played against itself are already online. Shi Yue, 9 Dan Professional and World Champion, described them as “Like nothing I’ve ever seen before — they’re how I imagine games from far in the future.” Google announced that this week’s competition “has been the highest possible pinnacle for AlphaGo as a competitive program. For that reason, the Future of Go Summit is our final match event with AlphaGo… We hope that the story of AlphaGo is just the beginning.”

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Source: Slashdot – Google Go-Playing A.I. Retires To Focus On Energy Conservation And Medicine

ChristianVillum writes: Creative Commons staff-members Sarah Hinchliff Pearson and Paul Stacey have now published Made With Creative Commons, the awaited book they successfully funded on Kickstarter in 2015. “Made With Creative Commons is a book about sharing,” explains the book’s description. “It is about sharing textbooks, music, data, art, and more. People, organizations, and businesses all over the world are sharing their work using Creative Commons licenses because they want to encourage the public to reuse their works, to copy them, to modify them… But if they are giving their work away to the public for free, how do they make money?
“This is the question this book sets out to answer. There are 24 in-depth examples of different ways to sustain what you do when you share your work. And there are lessons, about how to make money but also about what sharing really looks like — why we do it and what it can bring to the economy and the world. Full of practical advice and inspiring stories, Made with Creative Commons is a book that will show you what it really means to share.”

There’s free versions in PDF, ePub, and MOBI formats for downloading from the Creative Commons site, and there’s also an edit-able version on Google Docs. A small Danish non-profit publisher named Ctrl+Alt+Delete Books is also publishing print copies of the book under a Creative Commons license “to ensure easy sharing,” and is making the book available on Amazon or through the publisher’s own web site.

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Source: Slashdot – Creative Commons Staff Members Release New Free eBook

A viral Twitter rant about Windows 10 Enterprise supposedly ignoring users’ privacy settings has since been clarified. “I made mistakes on my original testing and therefore saw more connections than I should have,” writes IT security analyst Mark Burnett, “including some to Google ads.” But his qualified results — quoted below — are still critical of Microsoft:

You can cut back even more using the Windows Restricted Traffic Limited Functionality Baseline but break many things.Settings can be set wrong if you aren’t paying attention. Also, settings are not consistent and can be confusing to beginners.You are opted-in to just about everything by default and have to set hundreds of settings to opt out, even on an Enterprise Windows system. Sometimes multiple settings for the same feature. Most Microsoft documentation discourages opting out and warns of a less optimal experience… But you can’t completely opt-out. Windows still tracks too much.Home and Professional users are much worse off due to limitations of some settings and lack of an IT staff… I’m not saying ditch Windows. I’m saying let’s fix this. If we can’t fix it, then we ditch Windows.

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Source: Slashdot – Security Analyst Concludes Windows 10 Enterprise ‘Tracks Too Much’