The West in Unaware of The Deep Learning Sputnik Moment

Many readers are unfamiliar with the history of Sputnik The effect of Soviet Union's achievement in launching the first man made satellite (i.e. Sputnik created the urgency to upgrade America's science and technology infrastructure: This was viewed by a shocked audience of over 200 million people. A vast majority of that audience was from countries were the game of Go is popularly played (i.e. To have a Western developed automation arrive and vanquish a legendary player like Lee Sedol certainly shocked the population to its core. Chinese authorities were concerned enough about the social ramifications that they hastily imposed a country-wide ban on the live-streaming of the event. This kind of shock of one's core view of the world is certainly to galvanize serious action.