On March 9, 2016, World Go Champion, Lee Sedol of South Korea, had been roundly defeated in Game 1 by AlphaGo, an AI system designed by DeepMind to play the ancient North Asian board game of strategy. The game of Go is very complex, and defeating Go masters had been the holy grail for AI… Continue reading Flying Up the Learning Curve in this New Age of Enlightenment: How Lee Sedol and AI Showed Humanity We Still Have Lots to Learn, and That’s Great!