Machine Learning – An idea whose time has come

Circa 1950: Alan Turing creates the "Turing Test" to determine if a computer has real intelligence. To pass the test, a computer must be able to fool a human into believing it is also human. Circa 2016: Google's Artificial Intelligence algorithm beats a professional player at the world's most complex board game, "Go". The AlphaGo algorithm, developed by Google DeepMind, manages to win five games out of five in the competition. The history of Machine Learning is, literally, encapsulated between these two developments.