This weekend, the world’s greatest Go player beat Google’s AlphaGo, an AI program developed by Google’s DeepMind unit. Lee Se-dol, the 33-year-old South Korean has been pitted against a machine in a game that is arguably the most technically challenging thing to take place on a board of squares. AlphaGo had already won three of the five games in the $1 million series, making Se-Dol’s victory somewhat hollow. Machines have already beaten us mere mortals at chess way back in 1997 when IBM’s Deep Blue dispatched Garry Kasparov. But why should any of this matter? After Deep Blue’s victory it…
This story continues at The Next Web