Game ON: the end of the old economic system is in sight

 

 

Google is a pioneer in limited artificial general intelligence (aka computers that can learn w/o preprogramming them). One successful example is AlphaGo.  It just beat this Go Grandmaster three times in a row.  

 

What makes this win interesting is that AlphaGo didn't win through brute force.  Go is too complicated for that:

...the average 150-move game contains more possible board configurations — 10¹⁷⁰ — than there are atoms in the Universe, so it can’t be solved by algorithms that search exhaustively for the best move.

 

It also didn't win by extensive preprogramming by talented engineers, like IBM's Deep Blue did to win at Chess.  

 

Instead, AlphaGo won this victory by learning how to play the game from scratch using this process:

 

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