Remember the excitement in 1997 when Deep Blue, the IBM computer, defeated chess grandmaster Gary Kasparov? That moment was considered a great leap forward for artificial intelligence. Now software designed to beat the best players in the world at “Go” is about to take thinking machines to a whole new level. Here’s why. Featuring former government tech adviser Rohan Silva.
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