The biggest artificial intelligence developments of 2016

This year was a big one for artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning and all the related technologies. Thanks to innovations and breakthroughs, the industry took great leaps both for the better and the worse this year. Though we're still a long way from Singularity or Skynet (or Genisys or whatever else you want to call a robot and artificial intelligence invasion), we can all acknowledge that the lines between man and machine became a little bit more blurred in 2016. Here are some of the hottest things AI had in stock for us in the past year. When Google DeepMind's AlphaGo beat world champion Lee Sedol at Go four out of five times, it wasn't just another chapter in the endless saga of board game matchups between man and machine--it was a watershed moment.