
The victory of a programme over a human in the ancient board game 'Go' has sparked intrique and, in some cases concern, over the development of artificial intelligence. It shows that a machine has approximated human intuition and outsmarted the best human brain in the game. It's something that scientists hadn't expected to happen for at least another decade, and it's a giant leap for artificial intelligence showing that machines can learn on their own. But is that something to be celebrated or feared? Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/trtworld Twitter: https://twitter.com/trtworld Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/trtworld GooglePlus: https://plus.google.com/+trtworld ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: THREAT OR BENEFIT