The future of machine learning is here - Electronicsmedia - Leading Electronics and Technology Magazine

Are our machines turning into gods? Jie, the world's best player of the world's oldest board game, Go, had just met his match… in the form of a program called AlphaGo. In the space of a year, the program had become "almost like the god of Go," said Jie after losing to AlphaGo. Jie had been playing the game, viewed as too hard for machines to excel at, since he was 10. AlphaGo was only made by Google's parent, Alphabet, in 2014.