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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

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.

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!
I am eager to know the result by next Monday (12/5).

Galation

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.

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

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.

Bonobo wrote:we all should return to that page on December 5 and vote again

Never tenuki 'till the end!
Galation

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

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/12/ ... rough-year

Alphago is 3rd at the moment.

AlphaGo is leading right now, winrate 60%