Making Plans for 'Nigel' - The Digital Line

It was back in May of this year that Google's AI AlphaGo beat the high-profile Go player Lee Sedol at his own game. What was a surely disappointing moment for Sedol, losing 4-1 to the AI, was a revelation for the tech community. Media organisations quickly picked up the story, proclaiming AlphaGo's success a demonstration of AI's superiority to humans. But while it may seem that we're headed for a Skynet scenario, artificial intelligence has yet to live up to our expectations of what "intelligence" really is. My interest was peaked when I first heard about Kimera System's latest algorithm, Nigel; the first example of artificial general intelligence.