AlphaGo Turns 10: How DeepMind’s Breakthrough Set the Stage for AGI
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In 2016, Google DeepMind's artificial intelligence (AI) AlphaGo played a match against Lee Sedol, 9-dan, winning 4 games and losing 1. It was the "match of the century," the first time an AI defeated a human. Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind, said the match's performance "signalled the dawn of the AI era," and declared that Gemini and AlphaGo would usher in the era of artificial general intelligence (AGI).
AlphaGo Turns 10: How DeepMind’s Breakthrough Set the Stage for AGI
While generative artificial intelligence (AI) gained mainstream attention after the launch of GPT-3 in 2020, the underlying technology, machine learning, is decades old. From typing prediction in keyboard apps to recommendation algorithms in social media platforms, all rely on the same technology and have contributed to what AI has become today. One definitive precursor of modern-day AI is said to be AlphaGo, a system created by Google DeepMind …
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