Will Artificial Intelligence Make All Business Decisions?

When Google's AlphaGo computer defeated a human champion in the insanely complex board game "Go" in March, experts were surprised by the computer's ability to recognize patterns and make quick, instinctive decisions – otherwise known to humans as intuition. Intuition, or gut instinct, is one of many hallmarks of business decision-making. Steve Jobs had no concrete evidence that the iPhone would be a success, but he saw patterns in the market, and in his mind, that convinced him that consumers would want it. AlphaGo's programmers set out to imitate that sense of intuition by first loading 150,000 prior matches between good players into the computer. Then they had AlphaGo play against itself endlessly.