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

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.

• Read Time : 7 mins

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