Alphabet's Latest AI Show Pony Has More Than One Trick
Alphabet's Latest AI Show Pony Has More Than One Trick
Business, Spoken · SpokenLayer
December 6, 20174m 36s
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Show Notes
The history of artificial intelligence is a procession of one-trick ponies. Over decades researchers have crafted a series of super-specialized programs to beat humans at tougher and tougher games. They conquered tic-tac-toe, checkers, and chess. Most recently, Alphabet’s DeepMind research group shocked the world with a program called AlphaGo that mastered the Chinese board game Go. But each of these artificial champions could play only the game it was painstakingly designed to play.
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