Google's AlphaGo AI Defeats Go Player In First of Five Games

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In a demonstration of AI's capabilities, Google's Deep Mind unit developed AlphaGo, and artificial intelligence devised to challenge the World's best at Go.

AI has come a long way, and there's more to go. However, it still has a long way to go when taken out of its specialism.

A huge milestone has just been reached in the field of artificial intelligence: AlphaGo, the program developed by Google's DeepMind unit, has defeated legendary Go player Lee Se-dol in the first of five historic matches being held in Seoul, South Korea. Google's AlphaGo AI Defeats Go Player In First of Five Games [theverge.com]

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The Singularity approaches, and it stirs in me, mostly thoughts of leisure activities, like kitesurfing. Spaceflight too, but just for fun. Hedonism baby! I've been thinking my 3rd grade teacher was a liar, all that nonsense about the robots doing all the work, but maybe she was right, just missed on timing. :-) Somebody program them to worship human hedonism please. Cuz this could go badly otherwise.