We humans can learn from DeepMind's Go wins (and loss)

In this handout image provided by Google, South Korean professional Go player Lee Sedol reviews the match with other professional Go players after the fourth match against Google's artificial intelligence program, AlphaGo, during the Google DeepMind Challenge Match on March 13, 2016 in Seoul. Lee Sedol and DeepMind brought vastly different brains to their five-game Go match at a Seoul hotel this past week -- one made of flesh and blood and the other of bits and metal. Yet the South Korean and the artificial intelligence machine from Google's U.K. unit earned their respective victories in a Four Seasons meeting room thanks in part to a common tactic: Surprise. In doing so, both played an ancient Asian game according to an ancient Asian maxim. "The whole secret lies in confusing the enemy," Sun Tzu wrote in The Art of War.