Standard Digital News - Will artificial intelligence be threat to human society?

Google supercomputer AlphaGo outsmarted South Korean Go champion Lee Sedol, winning 4-1 in the best of five game series that came to an end on Tuesday, as people begin to wonder whether the ever-changing world of artificial intelligence (AI) will one day pose a threat to the human society. Michael Thielscher, a professor at Australia's University of New South Wales (UNSW), said the supercomputer can only play Go and is unable to do anything besides what it has been programmed for. "It's now better it seems than any human player but it's still only good at Go, and this is probably the biggest weakness of many existing artificial intelligence systems, that they lack what we call artificial general intelligence," Thielscher, a professor of computer science and engineering, told Xinhua. Google itself is a big believer in AI. In recent years, its self-driving cars have been gaining a lot of attention.