This week, though, a computer called Alpha Gode feats the world’s best player of Go. It did so by “learning” the game, crunching through 30 million positions from recorded matches, reacting and anticipating. It evolves as a player and taught itself.
That single game of Go marks a milestone on the road to the“ technological singularity” ,the moment when artificial intelligence becomes capable of self-improvement and learns faster than humans can control or understand.
