AlphaGo's victory means the world is about to change

This weekend, the world's greatest Go player beat Google's AlphaGo, an AI program developed by Google's DeepMind unit. Lee Se-Dol, the 33-year-old South Korean has been pitted against a machine in a game that is arguably the most technically challenging thing to take place on a board of squares. Our biggest ever edition of TNW Conference is fast approaching! AlphaGo had already won three of the five games in the 1 million series, making Se-Dol's victory somewhat hollow. Machines have already beaten us mere mortals at chess – way back in 1997 when IBM's Deep Blue dispatched Garry Kasparov.