There's no doubt that artificial intelligence is one of the most fascinating and rapidly-growing fields in technology today. But there are still many things about AI that remain unknown to the average person. In this blog post, we will explore 10 interesting facts about artificial intelligence that you may not know. Keep reading to learn more! The most powerful artificial intelligence-based text generator available today, OpenAI's GPT-2, can write entire paragraphs and is error-free, but it has difficulty establishing causal relationships.

South Korean Go master Lee Se-Dol recently announced his retirement from professional Go competition. He felt that no matter how hard he tries, he will never beat AI Go players like AlphaGo. It is a rather sad decision and development of his historical defeat in competition with Google DeepMind's AlphaGo. It gives the whole thing a more dramatic tone than it should be. However, the defeat of human Go players to AI is neither the end of the world for the Go game nor for the human players.

After winning its three-game match against Chinese grandmaster Ke Jie, the world's top Go player, AlphaGo is retiring. Demis Hassabis, the CEO and founder of DeepMind, the Google artificial intelligence lab that built this historic machine, tells WIRED he will now move the machine's designers to other projects. "This is some of the top people in the company," Hassabis says. "The idea is to really explore what we can do in other domains." Considering the world-shaking success of AlphaGo, that is a very powerful idea.

Google's Artificial Intelligence can now teach itself to beat humans at complex games without using knowledge given to it by human developers. AlphaZero, the game-playing AI created by Google sibling DeepMind, is able to master games like chess, shogi and Go just by reading the rule book. The'superhuman' computer program teaches itself to play these games with no prior knowledge except each game's rules. A study, led by American Association for the Advancement of science, shows that the program was able to teach itself the intricacies of each game until mastered. Google's AlphaZero has defeated one of the best chess programs in the world after learning the game from scratch in just four hours.

Not too long ago it was often said that computer vision could not compete with the visual abilities of a one-year-old. That is no longer true: computers can now recognize objects in images about as well as most adults can, and there are computerized cars on the road that drive themselves more safely than an average sixteen-year-old could. And rather than being told how to see or drive, computers have learned from experience, following a path that nature took millions of years ago. What is fueling these advances is gushers of data. Data are the new oil. Learning algorithms are refineries that extract information from raw data; information can be used to create knowledge; knowledge leads to understanding; and understanding leads to wisdom. Welcome to the brave new world of deep learning. Deep learning is a branch of machine learning that has its roots in mathematics, computer science, and neuroscience.

Google's AlphaGo AI has once again made the case that machines are now smarter than man -- when it comes to games of strategy, at least. AlphaGo made its name last year when it defeated high-profile Go player Lee Sedol 4-1, but now it has beaten the world's best player of Go, the hugely complex ancient strategy game. Today, it won against Go world champion Ke Jie to clinch a second, decisive win of a three-part series that is taking place in China this week. "I'm putting my hand on my chest, because I thought I had a chance. I thought I was very close to winning the match in the middle of the game, but that might not have been what AlphaGo was thinking. I was very excited, I could feel my heart thumping!" he said in a post-tie press conference.

In March 2016, Alphabet's DeepMind research group set a milestone in artificial intelligence when its AlphaGo program defeated professional Go player Lee Sedol, then fifth-ranked in the world, at the complex board game Go. Now China's Tencent is claiming a milestone of its own in Go--and China's ambitions in artificial intelligence. Last week, the company's Fine Art program defeated China's top professional Ke Jie, despite giving him a significant head start. Ke recently slipped to number two in the world, after holding the top spot for three years. Fine Art's victory won notice in the world of Go because it helps illustrate the gulf that has opened between human and machine players of the complex boardgame.

Industrial revolutions--from mechanization to electrification and mass production to increased automation--have long been about replacing human muscle with machines. For many factory workers who might face the threat of redundancy, that is scary enough. But the fourth revolution, which is more about replacing human brain power with artificial intelligence (AI), presents a change that many more workers are finding difficult to accept.

Back in May, AlphaGo from Google, an AI algorithm that is part of DeepMind, defeated the human world champion Ke Jie in a three-part match. After it was over, Jie vowed never to play a computer again. But apparently something has changed his mind because Chinese news sources report that Jie will once again play an artificial intelligence at an AI tournament to be held in China in April 2018. Ke Jie is one of the tournament's ambassadors, and he will play against the AI Tianrang. Normally, a human representative places pieces on behalf of the AI, but in this case, a robotic arm developed by Fuzhou University will fulfill that role.

About three years ago, DeepMind, a company owned by Google that specializes in AI development, turned its attention to the ancient game of Go. Go had been the one game that had eluded all computer efforts to become world class, and even up until the announcement was deemed a goal that would not be attained for another decade! This was how large the difference was. When a public challenge and match was organized against the legendary player Lee Sedol, a South Korean whose track record had him in the ranks of the greatest ever, everyone thought it would be an interesting spectacle, but a certain win by the human. The question wasn't even whether the program AlphaGo would win or lose, but how much closer it was to the Holy Grail goal.