"Playing Go is not an end itself. Such techniques can be applied to the development of robotics and research on complex patterns like weather. And it’s still some way from human intelligence. “It’s not really human-level understanding,” Ryan Calo of the University of Washington argues. But if AlphaGo can understand Go, then maybe it can understand a whole lot more, he wonders. “What if the universe is just a giant game of Go?”"
- Date Published:01/30/2016
- Original Publication:The Irish Times