This past week, the Go-playing world was rocked by DeepMind AlphaGo’s unexpected victory over legendary champion Lee Se-dol. Sure, supercomputers have beaten chessmasters at their own game before, but due to the extremely complex nature of the 5000-year old game of Go, this was an unprecedented upset that experts had predicted wouldn’t happen for another 10 years.
A timeline of artificial intelligence victories, from 1997-3041
So what does this mean for us, and more dramatically, the rest of humanity? Is it time to welcome our new robot overlords? Here’s a handy timeline of AI victories to help you make sense of it all.
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