Artificial Intelligence Then and Now

During the 2010s, in sharp contrast, the machine learning community accumulated a collection of flexible tools that exceeded expectations in one application after another. Suddenly the AI surprises were coming on the upside: Who knew that neural networks could write poetry or turn prompts into photographs? DeepMind, a British company acquired by Google in 2014, generated a series of headlines. It created the first computer system able to play the board game Go at the highest levels, a much greater computational challenge than chess. DeepMind then applied itself to protein folding, suggesting that deep learning might be poised to transform scientific research.