While artificial intelligence has started to outmatch masters of the Japanese board games go and shogi, the sport of curling, known as chess on ice, is also turning to high technology in search of the ultimate strategical advantage.An autonomous engineering research group from Hokkaido University gave a lecture on how AI could impact the game of curling as the sole Japanese representatives at a research forum on the use of AI in team sports held in New York in February.The team, including 51-year-old graduate school professor Masahito Yamamoto who has been developing the system for the past…READ FULL ARTICLE
