This Week in Disruptive Tech | December 3, 2020: A roundup of news and perspectives on how technology is shaping the future, here in India and across the world

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• Alphabet
• Mons Rumker
• protein structure
• bitcoin
• DeepMind
• Niall Fergusson
• Balaji Srinivasan
• Nouriel Roubini
• Chang’e 5
• AlphaFold
• Pixar
• Artificial Intelligence
• Disruptive technologies
• AlphaGo
• China moon mission
• Demis Hassabis

In 2016, Go world champion Lee Sedol lost to AlphaGo, Google’s Go-playing AI program. How did the program do this? And why does this feat matter? Kartik Hosanagar answers that in this extract from his book, ‘A Human’s Guide to Machine Intelligence’

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• AlphaGo
• Artificial Intelligence
• Lee Se-dol
• Machine Learning
• Deep Learning

March 19, 2019: A roundup of news and perspective on disruptive technology. In this issue: AI’s impact on surgical skills, air crashes, electric vehicles and data for public good

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• data sharing
• AlphaGo
• privacy
• Artificial Intelligence
• Electric vehicles

That artificial intelligence is here to stay seems a given. But Garry Kasparov and I believe we aren’t going any place. My little girls need us

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• social robotics
• books
• Deep Thinking
• Garry Kasparov
• artificial intelligence
• AlphaGo

When machines beat men, they make us seriously think about our place in a technologically advanced world and we tend to overestimate machines and underestimate men.

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• Google
• Artificial intelligence
• Lee Se-dol
• Garry Kasparov
• DeepMind
• AlphaGo
• Technology