01 | The day modern AI toppled humanity's champion
Oct 24, 2023•26 min•Season 1Ep. 1
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Episode description
The world is experiencing a boom in artificial intelligence (AI). It's everywhere. In just a few years, computers have learned to paint a picture, write a novel, translate languages and consume the entire internet.
But how we got here goes back decades to two men who couldn't agree on the best way to teach a thinking machine.
The AI world was divided. Then a new kind of machine beat a human at Go, a game it was never supposed to be able to win.
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