Chris Maddison was just an intern when he started working on the Go-playing AI that would eventually become AlphaGo. In March 2016, Google DeepMind's artificial intelligence system AlphaGo shocked the world. In a stunning five-match series of Go, the ancient Chinese board game, the AI beat the world's best player, Lee Sedol - a moment that was televised in front of millions and hailed by many as a historic moment in the development of artificial intelligence. Chris Maddison, now a professor of artificial intelligence at the University of Toronto, was then a master's student and helped get the project off the ground. Alex Wilkins: How did the idea for AlphaGo first come about?

Has the technology lived up to its potential? The first time that AlphaGo revealed its full power, it prompted a visceral reaction . Lee Sedol, the world's greatest player of the ancient Chinese board game Go, had grown visibly agitated at the artificial intelligence's prowess. The hushed crowd in downtown Seoul, South Korea, could barely contain its gasps. It was quickly dawning on Lee, and the tens of millions watching at home, that this AI was different to those that had come before. It wasn't just beating Lee, but it was doing so with an almost human-like aptitude.

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Outside OpenAI's headquarters, a handful of people gathered on Monday holding pieces of colorful chalk. They got down on their knees and started writing messages on the sidewalk. Please no legal mass surveillance. At issue was a business deal that the company recently signed with the Department of Defense, following the Pentagon's sudden turn against Anthropic . OpenAI will now supply its technology to the military for use in classified settings, the sorts that may involve wartime decisions and intelligence-gathering--an agreement, many legal experts told me, that could give the government wide-ranging powers.

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AI is'identifying and prioritising targets, recommending weaponry and evaluating legal grounds for a strike'. AI is'identifying and prioritising targets, recommending weaponry and evaluating legal grounds for a strike'. "N ever in the future will we move as slow as we are moving now," the UN secretary-general, António Guterres, warned this week, addressing the urgent need to shape the use of artificial intelligence. The speed of technological development - as well as geopolitical turbulence - is collapsing the distinction between theoretical arguments and real world events. The AI company Anthropic insisted that it could not remove safeguards preventing the Department of Defense from using its technology for domestic mass surveillance or autonomous lethal weapons.

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