Artificial Intelligence: Go Lee Se-dol master wins against AlphaGo program

AI Media captionGoogle lost to Lee Se-dol after winning three consecutive games

Master game player Guo won his first match against the computer program Google, after losing three in a row in the competition the best of the five.

Lee Se-dol, one of the best players in the world, said his victory over AlphaGo was "priceless."

Chinese board game is considered to be a much more difficult task for the computer than chess, and wins AlphaGo were seen as a landmark moment for artificial intelligence.

The fifth game will be played on Tuesday.

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Image captionMr Lee is one of the greatest players in the game today
Go is a game of two players who take turns putting black and white stones on a grid of 19-by-19. Players win by taking control of more territory on the board.

Commentator Michael Redmond said AlphaGo played well until the middle of the game, but in the course of 78, Mr. Lee played brilliantly.

Speaking after his victory, Mr Lee said: "I never congratulated so much, because I won one game."

Google representatives said that the defeat was "very valuable" for AlphaGo, as it identified the problem that now they can try to fix it.

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Image captionDeepMind executive director Demis Hassabis reacts to news
In the first game of the series, AlphaGo triumphed very narrow margin - Mr. Li led most of the match, but AlphaGo managed to create a strong leadership role in its final stages.

After losing the second match in the deep mind, Lee Se-dol said he was "speechless," adding that the car AlphaGo plays "almost the perfect game".

In the third game of the commentators said that Lee Se-dol brought his "top game", but that AlphaGo won "in great style".

AlphaGo system was developed British computer company DeepMind, which was bought by Google in 2014.

She created her own experience studying old games and teasing game patterns.

DeepMind executive director Demis Hassabis said AlphaGo "played himself, a different version of itself, millions and millions of times, and each time there is progressively a little bit better."

"He learns from his mistakes," he told the BBC.

Google urges US to shake self-driving laws

magician caption Google considers self-driving car should have no steering wheel or pedals
Google's self-driving car chief urged lawmakers to ensure the United States establishes a lawful technology.
Chris Urmson told a Senate hearing that the US transportation secretary should be given power over the matter, and not left to the discretion of individual states.
He also confirmed the opinion of the company, it would be safer if passengers are not able to override the autonomous vehicle system.
This contrasts with the views of the California regulator.
State Department of Motor Vehicles has published draft regulations in December that said the trained person must still be able to take control.
Mr. Urmson noted that 23 states now found a total of 53 legislative acts concerning self-driving vehicles, some of which are in conflict with each other.
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Image captionMr Urmson US Transportation Secretary wants to take responsibility self-driving laws
"At the present time we are faced with a growing patchwork of state laws and regulations relating to self-driving cars, which has the potential to become unworkable," said Mr. Urmson.
"If every state is going its own way, it would be highly impractical to operate an autonomous vehicle across state borders."
His view was echoed in the Senate Commerce Committee on LYFT pickup service, which is working with General Motors, to develop their own vehicles Driverless.
"The worst possible scenario for the growth of autonomous vehicles is inconsistent and contradictory patchwork of local, municipal and county laws that will hinder efforts to bring the autonomous vehicle technology to market," said Joseph Okpaku, LYFT director of public policy.
"Rules are necessary, but the regulatory restraint and the sequence is equally important, if we want this industry to realize their full potential."
leadership
Risks associated with the self-driving vehicles in their current state have been isolated in the last month, when one Google car caused a collision with a bus in the city of Santa Clara, California.
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Image captionPart car company Google has been left stuck on a bus with which he faced
One expert robotics at the hearing urged senators to resist the pressure to allow the public to use the self-driving car too early, and said the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) should assume a greater leadership of the tests at the same time.
Missy Cummings Professor of Duke University said that she thought it was "self-driving community" was "deficient" in the way he carries out his experiments to date.
"I see [it] to be a rush to systems that are not ready for widespread," she explained.
"[One issue] is an operation in bad weather conditions, including standing water on roads, drizzling rain, sudden downpours and snow.
"The combination of these restrictions to the impossibility of self-driving cars to follow traffic policeman gestures - especially on a rainy day in Poncho - means of self driving car should not really be working near the elementary school at this time.
"Another serious problem with the self-driving cars is their vulnerability to malicious intent or even a prankster. For example, relatively easy to replace GPS from self-driving vehicles, which includes hacking their systems and drive them off course.
"In addition, recent studies have shown that $ 60 [£ 42] a laser device and can deceive self-driving vehicles in sensitive objects that do not exist."
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Image captionProf Cummings has concerns about self-driving cars performance in bad weather
transparency
Professor Cummings also set his sights on a statement by Mr. Urmson, that Google self-driving car, to date, have already traveled 1.4 million miles (2.25 million km) on the road, noting that a taxi fleet in New York went on to a little more than days.
She suggested that 275 million miles must be driven by fatality free before self-driving could be said to be safer than vehicles under the control of man. At the same time, Professor Cummings says that companies need to be more transparent about the tests carried out by them.
One of the technology firms responded, stressing that self-driving vehicles used multiple sensors simultaneously.
"Each of these technologies has its own strengths and weaknesses," explained Glen Delphi Devo.
"In some cases, vision or Lidar [laser-based system] could be jeopardized weather, but the radar is very strong in the weather.
"It is absolutely true that the sensors have strengths and weaknesses, but by combining these sensors you end up with a much more capable package, of course, with more features than the perception of the individual [] driver, relying on eyesight alone."
leapfrog risk
One of the senators raised the likelihood that the US could fall behind other countries if it did not heed the warning from Google and come up with a single set of rules.
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Image captionSenator Cory Booker is concerned that the UK will mess with the US self-driving technology
"We were the first to introduce legislation that allows testing of autonomous vehicles, but other countries are now clearly pushing upon us, offering more flexibility for companies to test this technology," said Senator Cory Booker.
"In the UK, for example, is rapidly moving forward ... and Japan has allowed Nissan and Toyota, to check their cars there in 2013.
He added: "If [the current regulatory regimes] have been at the time of the Wright brothers, we would never have got off the ground in the study of air travel."
Chancellor George Osborne's Treasury is expected to confirm on Wednesday the expansion of self-driving test in the UK, allowing computer-controlled trucks to divide the section of the highway with the population at the end of this year.

Budget 2016: Driverless trucks receive a British court

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Driverless trucks and will be piloted in the UK, the government approved in its budget.

Earlier in March, The Times, the proposed tests will take place at the "quiet area" of the M6 ​​motorway in Cumbria in 2016.

The Government has now confirmed "Truck" caravan test in which vehicles form a convoy led by a leading driver in the truck, will go ahead.

He also said that Driverless cars will be tested on British roads by 2017.

The budget, released Wednesday, the government said it wanted Britain to be "a global center of excellence in the field of connected and autonomous vehicles."

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Image title from unmanaged plan truck was scheduled to complete the budget Chancellor posted online
Companies such as Ford, and Google has been testing autonomous vehicles in a few months, but tests usually take place in California.

Edmund King, president of roadside recovery company the AA, has questioned the feasibility of the scheme truck caravan in the UK.

"The problem with the UK network of roads is that we have more inputs and outputs of our highways than any other motorways in Europe and indeed in the world," he said earlier in March.

"Therefore it is very difficult to have a 44-ton lorry-10 squad, because other means of transport must pass platoon to enter or leave the road."

Other technology-related items in the budget include:

plans for the £ 15m "connected corridor" between Dover and London with infrastructure that can communicate directly with vehicles
Comparative tests fuel signage on the M5 between Bristol and Exeter, allowing drivers to see the best deals
development strategy "5G" in 2017, the UK prepares for the next generation of wireless communication
tax-free allowance of £ 1000 for the "micro-entrepreneurs" who sell products online and the second £ 1,000 allowance for people who rent houses for rent

Apple stores iCloud data with Google

Image Caption Apple, the new store data for at least three other companies in addition to its own activities
As it turned out, Apple has stores ICloud some of its users' data on computer servers Google.
Apple, previously acknowledged using Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure cloud computing platform opponent in addition to their own data centers.
The deal is a coup for Google, which lags behind the Amazon and Microsoft in the market for the supply of online services by third parties.
None of the service will not have access to records ICloud members.
"Information ICloud risks not to be disturbed or otherwise observed the ultimate owners of the platforms it is on due to a very heavy encryption and separation technologies are used," says Chris Green, a technical expert consultancy company Lewis.
CRN News site was the first to report the transaction. He said, Apple, sealed the agreement with a division of Google cloud platform late last year.
The two tech giants have refused to comment, but the BBC was able to independently confirm the agreement.
It may seem surprising to those who believe these two companies are bitter rivals.
But Apple still puts Google as the default search engine on their mobile devices in the past demonstrated a willingness to do business with other competitors as well, not least in the Samsung, which makes some of its components.
The news, however, can cause concern for investors in the Amazon, because it follows the announcement, Dropbox and Spotify's recently moved operations from AWS.
Amazon, however, played down the latest developments.
"Sellers who understand the business relationships with the companies respect the [non-disclosure agreement] with their customers and do not imply a competitive apostasy, where it does not exist," he told CRN.

Bank of England to work with the new body cybersecurity

The first task of the new center of the UK Cyber ​​Security will work with the Bank of England, the government announced.

Work will include the establishment of standards for the financial sector in terms of sustainability of the type of cyber threats that could undermine the economy of the UK.

The new body - now renamed the National Center for Cyber ​​Security (NCSC) - was opened in the last year the Chancellor.

It is designed to bring the experience of the UK in the cyber one place.

Kieran Martin, now a senior official in the DSP, will be the first head in the NCSC.

"We must have a one-stop shop that people inside and outside the government can go," Matthew Hancock, Minister for the Cabinet Office told the BBC, saying that the NCSC will strive to be an authoritative source in the UK information security information.

The new center is designed to deal with the criticism of the existing mechanisms, as too opaque.

Increased access

DSP is the lead agency on cybersecurity, but because it's secret intelligence service in Cheltenham, it has not always been available or set to exchange information and communicate more broadly.

The new center is designed to remedy this problem by having a foot in the closed world of intelligence and public and corporate spaces.

The center will work with regulators - such as banks - provide advice to the private sector.

It will also work with other government agencies, critical national infrastructure and the wider business community and the public.

The greater the potential risk to the country, the closer the facility is likely to be associated with a particular department or business.

In the event of future violations, such as that of cyber-Talk-Talk in the past year, it is likely to be the center, which acts as the focal point for communications and consultations.

Those involved stress that the role of government is to protect the country from cyber-attacks, and to promote good practice, but that the responsibility for any attack that does take place will still rest with those who owns the data.

NCSC will be based in London and is expected to fully open for business in October.

Along with Ciaran Martin, Dr. Ian Levy, currently technical director of Cyber ​​Security at GCHQ, joined as technical director.