Artificial intelligence comes of age in showdown between human brainpower and a machineA computer program developed by Google took an unassailable 3-0 lead in a best-of-five match with a Go grandmaster on Saturday.The Chinese board game is considered to be much more complex than chess – there are a far greater number of outcomes – and the victory by the program,AlphaGo, is being a hailed as a stark demonstration of the rapidly growing power of contemporary artificial intelligence. AlphaGo took only four hours to achieve its third consecutive win over Lee Se-dol, and one of the ancient game’s greatest contemporary players.
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Source: theguardian.com