Every once in a while, we get a news so refreshing you begin to reimagine the current capabilities of technologies and the future prospects.
Before I proceed with this write-up, I must take a minute to give a big shout out to all those who dedicate all their time; Night and Day to conducting research and making all the innovation we admire today. We thank God and we thank you all!! You add hope to our existence!
That said, we can move on with the write-up. :-) . It was recently announced that Google's Artificial Intelligence (AI) machine beat the current world champion at a traditional Chinese board game, Go. See details here. Well, I simply think this is really nice, refreshing and newsworthy.
Achievements like this really demonstrate in concrete terms how far we have come with science and technology. This is far more real than quoting processing speed, storage capacity and all those jargons. Demonstrations makes developments in science and tech much more realistic to laymen.
The Science behind it is equally amazing. Google's AI team, DeepMind, reports that the AI actually learns by analyzing 30 million moves from games played by humans. That's some real learning! The AI bot learns the patterns that actually occur, what patterns are good and what are bad. The AI bot then takes what it has learnt and applies this in a real game. This is where the real innovation is.
The promise of AI is that computers will learn and eventually make decisions - in business, in medicine and other areas! It remains to see if this will come to fruition!
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