If Machines had an IQ they wouldn't be in MENSA

Why we don't need to worry about machines taking over the world … (yet!) Artificial Intelligence (AI) is finally coming of age; for those of us of a certain generation the actual application of AI today is the science fiction of our youth in front of our eyes. For mainstream media and general understanding it appears in the popular press as though the machines are set to take over; making us redundant from'work'. The crushing defeat of Lee Sedol, World Champion at the board game Go by the Google designed and built AlphaGo artificial intelligence machine has attracted headlines globally. Far more complex than Chess in terms of possible moves AlphaGo won the series 4-1 based on its capability to'learn' through playing itself numerous times; attracting headlines for its'creativity' and'intuition' in the moves it made on its way to victory. But how clever is it?