Evolving our way to artificial intelligence

Researcher David Silver and colleagues designed a computer program capable of beating a top-level Go player – a marvelous technological feat and important threshold in the development of artificial intelligence, or AI. It stresses once more that humans aren't at the center of the universe, and that human cognition isn't the pinnacle of intelligence. I remember well when IBM's computer Deep Blue beat chess master Garry Kasparov. Where I'd played – and lost to – chess-playing computers myself, the Kasparov defeat solidified my personal belief that artificial intelligence will become reality, probably even in my lifetime. I might one day be able to talk to things similar to my childhood heroes C-3PO and R2-D2.