Artificial Intelligence: The Promise of Limitless Possibilities

For those who are not familiar with Go, it is a 3,000-year-old game that is widely considered to be the most complex game ever invented because it is reported to have more possible board configurations than there are atoms in the universe. Until just a few months ago, it was thought that a computer could not defeat a human grandmaster for at least another decade due to the game's complexity. How did Google's AlphaGo program advance so much faster than many expected? First, it illustrates the power of the "Three Digital Accelerators" - the exponential growth of processing power (Moore's Law), bandwidth, and digital storage.