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Google's new PAIR project wants to rethink how we use AI

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Google's AI program, AlphaGo, went up against -- and defeated -- Chinese Go champion Ke Jie (on the left) at the Future of Go Summit in May in China. The match took place a year after AlphaGo bested Lee Sedol, world number two Go player. AlphaGo may have defeated humans at board games, but its creators really just want us to be buddies. In a new project named the People AI Research Initiative (PAIR), Google's researchers are looking at the relationship between humans and artificial intelligence in the hopes of making the latter more useful to the former, the tech giant announced on its blog on Monday. The company says it'll rethink AI on three levels: How we can use it as a tool in everyday life, how professionals in all fields can use it to make their jobs easier and how practical AI development can be taught to engineers.