AI vs. Human: The Greatest Go Tournament Ever
Google's 'AlphaGo' and the world's top ranked Go player go head-to-head in a battle to decide whether or not an AI can be programmed to win a game as ...
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For fans of artificial intelligence, the past few weeks have been very exciting. Last October, for the first time ever, an AI built by Google, known as AlphaGo, beat a professional human player at the incredibly complex board game Go. And then, in this last week, it went on to beat one of the best players in the world … four times. Which is a really big deal. And let us explain to you why. When engineers talk about artificial intelligence, they don’t mean sentient humanoid robots conversing with us, talking to us, becoming feeling, then taking over the world destroying us. AI is really just a way of programming computers to do things that humans normally do. See, computer programs follow a specific list of instructions to complete tasks, so they struggle with situations that have lots of op...
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For fans of artificial intelligence, the past few weeks have been very exciting. Last October, for the first time ever, an AI built by Google, known as AlphaGo, beat a professional human player at the incredibly complex board game Go. And then, in this last week, it went on to beat one of the best players in the world … four times. Which is a really big deal. And let us explain to you why. When engineers talk about artificial intelligence, they don’t mean sentient humanoid robots conversing with us, talking to us, becoming feeling, then taking over the world destroying us. AI is really just a way of programming computers to do things that humans normally do. See, computer programs follow a specific list of instructions to complete tasks, so they struggle with situations that have lots of op...
