The Battle Against The Machines

Korean Go grandmaster Lee Se-dol on Sunday registered his first win over Google's AlphaGo. The win comes after AlphaGo won first three games in the DeepMind challenge earlier this week.

 The win should serve as a reminder that Google's artificial intelligence computer is not perfect after all, at least for now.

 Se-dol said earlier this week that he was not able to defeat AlphaGo because he could not find any weakness in its strategy.

 Commenting after his win, Se-dol said, "I've never been congratulated so much just because I won one game!"

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The GNU free software project is introducing a new neural network computation package called Gneural Network.

 The GNU project has been impressed by the work of Google, IBM, AlphaGo and Watson on the field of artificial intelligence. 

However, the GNU project sees that the fact that only companies and labs have access to this technology can represent a threat: 

"First of all, we cannot know how money driven companies are going to use this novel technology. Second, this monopoly slows down Progress and Technology." 

This is why the author, Jean Michel Sellier, decided to create Gneural Network and release it under the GNU GPL license. 

In the current release (version number humbly set to 0.0.1), it is a very simple feedforward network which can learn very simple tasks such as curve fitting, but the development team plans to deliver more advanced features very soon. 

They are already spending efforts to implement a network of LSTM (long short term memory) neurons for recurrent networks and deep learning. Learning reinforcement techniques are also planned.