DEEPMIND
Artificial Intelligence
Gaming and Tech – DeepMind AI
Artificial intelligence. The stuff of the
future…or maybe not.
If you’ve seen the popular movie
franchise Terminator, or the Will Smith
hit iRobot you will have noticed that
science fiction depicts Artificial
Intelligence as a danger to humankind.
Fortunately Artificial Intelligence in
our real world is far less sinister. In
essence artificial intelligence, AI,
refers to the ability of a computer
system to naturally learn in the way
humans do. Now this may seem
unnecessary when you consider the fact
that computers perform calculations at
far greater speeds than the average
human.
The thing is, however, the abilities of
normal computers are limited by the
ingenuity of the engineers. Basically an
engineer can create a computer with X
abilities and that’s it…but once a
computer has the ability to learn, it can
grow its abilities in the same way
humans do, thus never becoming
obsolete.
At least that is the goal at the Google
owned DeepMind AI program. Recently
the DeepMind AI became the first
computer to beat a human champion in
a game of GO, a popular Chinese
strategy board game considered much
harder than chess.
Games are only the beginning…soon we
may have intelligent computers
performing medical operations far too
complex for humans to do. The
possibilities are endless.
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