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Unlike the “Nobel Prize in Computer Science” Turing Award, the ACM Computing Award (ACM Prize in Computing) is awarded annually in the computer field There are young scholars with outstanding contributions.

Silver is currently a (UCL) professor at University College London and the chief scientist of DeepMind, an artificial intelligence company owned by Google. As a leader in the field of deep reinforcement learning, Silver’s main achievement is leading the AlphaGo R & D team, defeating world champions Ke Jie and Li Shishi in the Go game.

Silver cleverly combines the ideas of deep learning, reinforcement learning, traditional tree search algorithms and large-scale computing to develop the AlphaGo algorithm. AlphaGo is considered a milestone in artificial intelligence research and has been listed by the New Scientist magazine as one of the top ten discoveries of the past decade. Artificial intelligence robot

AlphaGo also the first human to beat professional Go players, the first victory over the world champions go.

In March 2016, Alpha Go and Go World Champion, professional ninth player Li Shishi played a Go-Man-machine battle and won a total score of 4 to 1. At the end of 2016 and the beginning of 2017, the program started with ” “Master” (Master) is a registered player who competes with dozens of Go players in China, Japan, and South Korea. No one loses in 60 consecutive games; 2017 In May, at the Wuzhen Go Summit in China, it played against world No. 1 world Go champion Ke Jie and won with a total score of 3-0.

On October 19, 2017, in a research paper published in the international academic journal (Nature) , the Silver team Report a new version of the program AlphaGo Zero: Starting from a blank state, without any human input, it can quickly learn Go by itself, and beat the “predecessors” with a 100: 0 record. AlphaZero has achieved superman performance in chess, shogi, go and other games, showing the universality of unprecedented game methods.

ACM Chairman Cherri M. Pancake, said: “In the field of artificial intelligence, there are few other researchers can be like David Silver as people so excited.”

Infosys chief operating officer Pravin Rao expressed : “David Silver has made a fundamental contribution to deep reinforcement learning, which has led to rapid advances in artificial intelligence. When the computer was able to beat the world champion in a complex board game, it had inspired the public’s imagination and turned young attract researchers to the field of machine learning. importantly, the framework of Silver and his colleagues developed over the next many years to come, as artificial intelligence applications to provide commercial and industrial real contribution. “

ACM The Computing Award is designed to recognize young and middle-aged computer scientists whose research results have had a profound impact and broad significance. The prize is US $ 250,000. The Indian science and technology company Inverness ( Infosys Ltd) . The award ceremony will be held in San Francisco, USA on June 20, 2020, at which time Silver will officially accept the award.

Artificial Intelligence Plays Games

Since the 1950s, teaching computer programs to play games with humans or other computers has been a core practical project in artificial intelligence research. The competition between humans and machines has always been a balanceRuler of artificial intelligence.

computer program by making a series of decisions to achieve the goal of winning, this process is seen as analog and challenge to human thinking. Game competitions also provide researchers with easily quantifiable results, such as “Did the computer obey the rules? Did you score? Or did you win the game?” Some programs have come to compete with humans in checkers, and in the past few decades, more and more complicated chess programs have appeared.

In 1997, ACM sponsored game, IBM’s “Deep Blue” (DeepBlue) to become the first beat chess The computer program of world champion Gary Kasparov (Gary Kasparov) is also a watershed moment.

But for researchers, the goal is not just to develop programs that win games, but to use games as a litmus test for developing machines with the ability to simulate human intelligence.

2016 March millions of people worldwide watched the AlphaGo Go beat world champion Li Shishi of