Artificial Intelligence: made in the UK - Digital Catapult Centre

What makes the UK such a breeding ground for businesses working with Artificial Intelligence? We asked Alexandre Flamant and John Henderson, Co-founders of the LondonAI meetups, for their thoughts. Last week, a prototype programme from Google DeepMind achieved what many commentators thought would take at least another decade: it won a five match series of the ancient Chinese board game Go against reigning world champion Lee Sedol. In doing so, AlphaGo made a number of'creative' moves that flummoxed Go experts – no human would have ever played in such a way. This is true intelligence, even if currently confined to a specific board game.