[Tyler]

Google AI versus the Go grandmaster - who is the real winner?
28 January 2016, 12:00 am

                    Today we were greeted by the front page of Nature hailing a breakthrough in artificial intelligence: computers are now outperforming even the best humans at the Chinese game of Go, long been seen as the last preserve of human game-playing mastery. The breakthrough, from a team based at Google's DeepMind group in London, has come much earlier than many experts expected.

The Guardian - Technology (UK)Link

Source: AI in the News

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[squarebear]

And already the naysayers are putting down this achievement. It was the same when computers became better than humans at chess too. No matter what is classed as an intelligent pursuit, once a computer beats humans, suddenly it becomes a parlour trick...

[Art]

A wise observation Steve! I did notice that when Deep Blue beat Kasparov!

Ultimately, humans hate to get beaten, especially at their own game, and REALLY more so by a Computer!!