Evolving Our Way to Artificial Intelligence

Arend Hintze, Michigan State University Researcher David Silver and colleagues designed a computer program capable of beating a top-level Go player -- a marvelous technological feat and important threshold in the development of artificial intelligence, or A.I. It stresses once more that humans aren't at the center of the universe, and that human cognition isn't the pinnacle of intelligence. I remember well when IBM's computer Deep Blue beat chess master Garry Kasparov. Where I'd played -- and lo...