DeepMind's AI Victory Over Humans Is A Very Big Deal

The importance of Google owned DeepMind's AI victory over the world's best Go player is difficult to fathom. People expect computers to be smarter than human beings, however, Go is one game that was expected to be beyond what AI is capable of right now. The reason for this is that GO is a deceptively simple game with very few rules. All the pieces on the board have the same value, unlike chess where having more'valuable' pieces means that you will win more often than not. Players themselves describe the game as being based on intuition and'feel' rather than any set rules.