When AI Tech Turned a Corner -- Google's Deep Mind AlphaGo Beating Lee Sedol

I meant to write this blog several months ago. However as a compulsive procrastinator I kept putting it to another day, until today. On January 27, an article in Nature reported on a computer that had beat a human player at Go. It is an ancient board game that has long been viewed as a hard nut to crack for Artificial Intelligence (AI). Till then, computers had already beaten the best human players of backgammon, draughts, and chess.