Computational Intelligence Meets Game of Go @ IEEE WCCI 2012 [Society Briefs]

Since 2008, National University of Tainan (NUTN) in Taiwan and other academic organizations have hosted or organized several human vs. challenged the humans in the competition. In addition to observing how many advances have been made in artificial intelligence, the competition also observed physiological measurements for testing cognitive science on the game of Go. The topic is " the Most Strategic Game " because Go is the deepest known game for the classical " depth " criterion. The planned games in the competition include: (1) 7x7 small board games to see if computers can also outperform humans when the games conditions are slightly in favor of humans, (2) 9x9, 13x13, and 19x19 board games to see how far computers are from humans now, and (3) novel activities for physiological measurements to see if physiological signals are also impacted by various conditions. It is now known that Go is specific in the sense that brain areas involved in playing Go are not exactly the same as those involved in chess, in particular, more spatial reasoning, mental verbalization, and motor control. The design of games was to investigate the current level of strong programs on various board sizes, but also to monitor the human brain and to check the player strength assessment capabilities of Go programs. Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhGvzaMFNAI) also reported this event by the topic of " AI expo underway in Brisbane " on June 15, 2012. The games' results held in the IEEE WCCI 2012 are briefly listed as follows:  7x7: We assume that the fair komi in 7x7 Go is 9, which is the usual belief on 7x7. In June 2011, MoGoTW won 20 games against 10 professional Go players with komi in favor of the computer, and each human played as Black and as White [6]. Komi was 9.5 when the computer was White, and 8.5 when the computer was Black. This was done in order to check the ability of the computer to reach optimal play in 7x7. In spite of a mistake in one game (followed by a mistake by the human), the computer had a perfect record of 20 wins out of 20 games [6]. For the competition held in IEEE WCCI 2012, we played both easy setting (Komi in favor of the computer, i.e. 9.5 when computer is White and 8.5 when computer is Black) and difficult setting (Komi in favor …