Artificial Intelligence - Friend or Foe? PART 2

Artificial intelligence is coming – so how's it going to change our reality? In March of this year, Google's artificial intelligence, AlphaGo, beat one of the top human intelligences, Lee Sedol, at the strategically mind-boggling board game Go. Experts had thought we were years away, but the computer played elegant, creative moves to outfox a Go master. So are we on the brink of an AI revolution? Peter Bentley, a computer scientist at University College London, says "since the beginning of artificial intelligence research, one of the main ways that we have tested the intelligence of our computers is to ask them to play games with us, and the progression towards the recent victory has been a long one. But in all of these cases playing games is a hugely simple task."