Artificial Intelligence is getting better each year. A few years back an AI called Watson (created by IBM) beat the best human champions in Jeopardy. This was considered a milestone because it showed that computers could master the complexity of human language. Last year an AI created by Google called AlphaGo beat the best human champion in the Ancient Chinese game of Go. This game is way more complicated than chess. In fact, its so complicated that there are more possible moves in the game Go than there are atoms in the universe. Thus, the artificial intelligence powering Google's AlphaGo computer couldn't just do brute force calculations to beat its human opponent like IBM's Deep Blue did back in 1997 when it beat the "Michael Jordan of Chess" Garry Kasparov for the first time.
What the AI created by Google did was to learn how to play the Ancient Chinese game of Go like a human would. Then it had to practice playing the game against itself in thousands of simulations. And after all that practice it was able to easily beat the best human champion. This was considered a seminal moment in artificial intelligence history. Because it showed the shift from just brute force calculations to actual machine learning. It showed us that its possible for a computer to learn like we learn and then to apply those learning skills in super human ways.
We are not far off from the singularity folks. A theoretical moment in the future when artificial intelligence become so much more intelligent than all humans on earth put together that we have no idea what will happen next. For those that are skeptical about this coming technological singularity, just watch the video below:
What the AI created by Google did was to learn how to play the Ancient Chinese game of Go like a human would. Then it had to practice playing the game against itself in thousands of simulations. And after all that practice it was able to easily beat the best human champion. This was considered a seminal moment in artificial intelligence history. Because it showed the shift from just brute force calculations to actual machine learning. It showed us that its possible for a computer to learn like we learn and then to apply those learning skills in super human ways.
We are not far off from the singularity folks. A theoretical moment in the future when artificial intelligence become so much more intelligent than all humans on earth put together that we have no idea what will happen next. For those that are skeptical about this coming technological singularity, just watch the video below: