AlphaGo and Artificial Intelligence: One may easily imagine a future in which the only available careers are as artists, mathematicians, and prostitutes. One may imagine a slightly more distant future where even these careers have been automated. (Huck Bennett)
AlphaGo and the future of Artificial Intelligence
BBC Newsnight
Reddit “Ask Me Anything” with six go professionals and organizers who were involved with the match in Korea last week between Google’s AlphaGo AI and Lee Sedol 9p: Michael Redmond 9p; Myungwan Kim 9p; Hajin Lee 3p; Andy Okun (AGA President); Chris Garlock (AGA VP Communications, commented games on the official Deepmind stream); Andrew Jackson (AGA VP Operations, commented games on the AGA stream)
BBC World News interview with Francis Roads
Achievement Unlocked: Google AlphaGo A.I. Wins Go Series, 4-1
NPR
Don’t Forget Humans Created The Computer Program That Can Beat Humans At Go
FiveThirtyEight
“Sedol is my champion” tees available; Stefano Giurin has released a tshirt commemorating the first — and only — game won by Lee Sedo against AlphaGo. Click here for details.
The New York Gambit
Not about go or AlphaGo but an interesting read.
The New York Times
South Korea trumpets $860-million AI fund after AlphaGo ‘shock’
Nature
AlphaGo and the Limits of Machine Intuition
Harvard Business Review
Five Lessons from AlphaGo’s Historic Victory
MIT Technology Review
Why AlphaGo Is Not AI
IEEE Spectrum