When AlphaGo defeated Lee Sedol in 2016, this caused a shake up in the AI world [1]. For years, the idea of having an AI beat a human in Go was deemed impossible, but advancements in the field allowed this impossible dream to become a reality.
Having AI compete against humans has been a core part of AI research since the dawn of computers themselves. Alan Turing himself worked on the first chess engine [2], and the victory of Deep Blue over Garry Kasparov marked a change in the way we see computers. They are as good, or even better, than our best [3].
Now, we will put AI to the test in a different game: Wikispeedia (also known as The Wikipedia Game) [4].
References
1) “AlphaGo Movie”. AlphaGo Movie. Archived from the original on 3 January 2018. Retrieved 14 October 2017.
2) Erly, A. (2021) The Original Chess Engine: Alan Turing’s Turochamp, Chess.com. Available at: https://www.chess.com/blog/the_real_greco/the-original-chess-engine-alan-turings-turochamp (Accessed: 21 December 2023).
3) Deep Blue (no date) IBM. Available at: https://www.ibm.com/history/deep-blue (Accessed: 21 December 2023).
4) “Wikispeedia: An Online Game for Inferring Semantic Distances between Concepts”. Robert West, Joelle Pineau, and Doina Precup 21st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2009.
5) Potamias, Michalis, et al. “Fast shortest path distance estimation in large networks.” Proceedings of the 18th ACM conference on Information and knowledge management. 2009.
6) https://huggingface.co/sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v2