AlphaGo Can Shape The Future Of Healthcare - The Medical Futurist

In 2011, IBM's new supercomputer named Watson beat two genius players in the television show Jeopardy! It was a battle of lexical knowledge. So why is everyone so excited that Google Deepmind's AlphaGo recently beat Lee Sedol, today's best Go player 4-1? Go, played on a 19 19 board is far more complicated than chess. Using black-and-white stones on a grid, players gain the upper hand by surrounding their opponents' pieces with their own.