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In Two Moves, AlphaGo and Lee Sedol Redefined the Future (2016)
Although machines are now capable of moments of genius, humans have hardly lost the ability to generate their own.
This week saw the end of the historic match between Lee Sedol, one of the world's best Go players, and AlphaGo, an artificially intelligent system designed by a team of researchers at DeepMind, a London AI lab now owned by Google. It marked the first time a machine had beaten the very best at this ancient and enormously complex game---a feat that, until recently, experts didn't expect would happen for another ten years. This technology already underpins online services inside places like Google and Facebook and Twitter, helping to identify faces in photos, recognize commands spoken into smartphones, drive search engines, and more.
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