AlphaGo Can Shape The Future Of Healthcare

Google's AlphaGo program beat 18 time World Champion Lee Sedol in the complicated game of Go. By achieving this milestone, which many thought would not happen within the next decade, artificial intelligence proved it will have serious implications for medicine and healthcare. 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?