VOTE On Sciencemag’s Breakthrough of the Year 2016

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VOTE On Sciencemag’s Breakthrough of the Year 2016

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REMINDER

Now the second and last voting phase has begun.

And in case you think that AlphaGo resp. AI ain't as important as other options: it’s not as if this poll would decide on what science would focus on in the future—in which case I might be tempted to reconsider—this is just ScienceMag’s pick for 2016 ;)

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http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/11/ ... rough-year

AlphaGo is currently #3
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While it's true that many other discoveries are far more important, I'm still voting for AlphaGo as I see it as the very early step of solving artificial intelligence, and then use it to solve every problems.
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Hi,
so far, AlphaGo is ranked 2nd at 14%, after Human embrio in a dish 20%, but nearer to the 3rd place Ripples in space time, all the rest is under 8%.
Go have been granted a lot of popoularity after AlphaGo breaktrough! :tmbup:
I am eager to know the result by next Monday (12/5).

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None of them overly excite me. Perhaps the one about great apes reading minds does so the most. If AlphaGo is a pointer to the future of AI then it actually scares me because almost all scientific advances end up in the wrong hands.
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Galation wrote:[..]

I am eager to know the result by next Monday (12/5).
BTW, that will only be the preliminary result, the “top five”, which will again be presented for a final poll, so we all should return to that page on December 5 and vote again :-)
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DrStraw wrote:If AlphaGo is a pointer to the future of AI then it actually scares me because almost all scientific advances end up in the wrong hands.
Hi, I agree, sadly to say it is kind of traditional that most of the scientific research is payed to develop new weapons and/or more money. :roll:
Bonobo wrote:we all should return to that page on December 5 and vote again
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Reminder:

Now the second and last voting phase has begun.

And in case you think that AlphaGo resp. AI ain't as important as other options: it’s not as if this poll would decide on what science would focus on in the future—in which case I might be tempted to reconsider—this is just ScienceMag’s pick for 2016 ;)
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http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/12/ ... rough-year

Alphago is 3rd at the moment.
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AlphaGo is leading right now, winrate 60%
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