https://www.scmp.com/rss/324436/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com To err is human. Yet it is a sign of how far computer programming has come that to err is also to be artificially intelligent. When IBM Deep Blue won its six-game chess match against Garry Kasparov in May 1997, marking the first defeat of a reigning world chess champion to a computer under tournament conditions, there was one particular moment that stood out in Kasparov’s mind. As he observed in Time magazine: “I got my first glimpse of artificial intelligence, when in the first game of my match... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/society/article/2094870/alphagos-china-showdown-why-its-time-embrace-artificial?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/society/article/2094870/alphagos-china-showdown-why-its-time-embrace-artificial?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 21 May 2017 06:00:30 +0000