They are thinking about incorporating prior information of data, advices from professional Baduk players and others to build South Korean AlphaGo. Development of Baduk algorithm that is linked to Baduk industries is already taking place in China and Japan.
According to Korea Baduk Association on the 17th, it had discussed about joining hands in upgrading South Korea’s Baduk AI algorithm called ‘Dol Baram’ at a steering committee that had taken place on the 16th. Dol Baram proved its success by winning three out of four matches at ICT Baduk Competition. “Dol Baram’s ability is same as an ability of a top amateur player.” said Baduk PD (7-dan rank pro) Kim Kang-geun of NHN Entertainment HanGame. “There are only 3 points differential between Dol Baram and a pro player.”
“We have not prepared any detailed methods or plans yet.” said a representative for Korea Baduk Association. “Our method of support is not too difficult. Because it is meaningful from an aspect of improving competitive edge or added values in industries, we will look for ways of working together.”
There are many problems such as copyrights and others to solve in order to secure excellent data. It is hard if enormous amount of funding like Google had prepared for AlphaGo is not guaranteed. However if Korea Baduk Association cooperates, it becomes easier to secure data from South Korea’s Baduk players and is also possible to receive advices from pro players during a process of development.
Securing computing power that will support SW is another task for Korea Baduk Association. Google had used 1,202 CPUs and 176 GPUs to support enormous amount of arithmetic calculations of AlphaGo. However NuriGrim, which is the developer of Dol Baram, is a small company and it will be hard for NuriGrim to allocate HW without any support from businesses or South Korean Government.
“Dol Baram’s computing power is little bit better than PCs.” said Director General Seo Seok-jin of Software Policies (leader of Ministry of Science, ICP and Future Planning’s Baduk players) at ICT Baduk Competition’s award ceremony. “We are going to continuously have Dol Baram participate in competitions after strengthening its computing capability by using Cloud and others and upgrading Dol Baram.”

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Could this be Master(P)?