2018-12-08

Deepmind claims Deep AI

chess board    
A company called DeepMind has an artificial intelligence called AlphaZero which they claim is showing signs of human like intuition and creativity.

Characterized by their developers as a ‘turning point’ in history, I'm not so akin to the chess player algorithm (or chess players in general) being either creative or intuitive.

You can beat a chess player without any modicum of either by having enough tactics up your sleeve (or in your core) and this simply does not wash for me personally.

However, people may call anything "intuitive" or "creative" if it gives them that business plan edge over the price of stock or foot-in-the-door merger opportunities.

I'll defer further discernment until I see something A LOT MORE impressive than a chess algorithm being portrayed as the "be all" and the "end all" in AI.