Will AI And Blockchain Be Game-Changers?

Pic: Getty ImagesArtificial intelligence, blockchain, cryptocurrencies - three terms you need to scatter through your conversation if you want to come across as a tech guru. On Tech Tent this week we examine these trends and ask a futurologist to predict which of them will make rapid progress over the next decade. This week saw another major achievement by Google's Deep Mind, when it showed that a neural network could learn to play Go in just three days, without even looking at how humans play this complex game. AlphaGo Zero took on the previous version of the program, developed with human expertise, and beat it by 100 games to nil. The company now hopes to use this technique in other areas such as drug development.