<story><title>ACM Prize in Computing Awarded to AlphaGo Developer</title><url>https://www.acm.org/media-center/2020/april/acm-prize-2019</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>eyerow</author><text>As a long-time Go player and ML guy who even built his own (albeit shitty) Go AI in college, I&amp;#x27;m a bit biased, but watching the AlphaGo-Lee Sedol match really felt like watching our generation&amp;#x27;s moon landing.&lt;p&gt;If y&amp;#x27;all haven&amp;#x27;t already, there&amp;#x27;s a new AlphaGo documentary made by DeepMind on YT: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=WXuK6gekU1Y&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=WXuK6gekU1Y&lt;/a&gt;. Brought tears to my eyes. Both a triumph for humanity in building an unbelievable machine like this, and a loss for humanity in that the infinite mystery of Go will be diminished, and again a triumph for humanity in Lee Sedol&amp;#x27;s brilliant win in Game 4...</text></comment>
<story><title>ACM Prize in Computing Awarded to AlphaGo Developer</title><url>https://www.acm.org/media-center/2020/april/acm-prize-2019</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>asdfasgasdgasdg</author><text>Surely a great achievement. Although I feel a little bad for the team. I assume Silver didn&amp;#x27;t write all the code or design the entire algorithm single-handedly. But the recognition and the reward accrues to him alone. Ah, unjust hierarchical society.&lt;p&gt;I guess the other members of the team are being compensated well enough at DeepMind that $250k would be more icing than cake, but it still feels weird to see that Silver is the only person named in the article when a number of other world class researchers worked with him on this problem.</text></comment>