Losing Games To Artificial Intelligence Is Helping Humanity Advance – WPTV.com

In contests between humans and machines, humans keep losing but at least we're getting something out of our defeats.

Google's AlphaGo, the artificial intelligence designed to play the strategy game Go, recently beat thetop-ranked player. It also beat a team offive world-class Go players by itself.

The victory is historic for AI because AlphaGo is programmedto teach itself the gameinstead of working from a defined set of commands.

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It has now retired from competitions to focus on other tasks, like finding cures for diseases.

IBM's Watson followed a similar path. It defeated the person who held the longest winning streak in "Jeopardy" history, and then it entered the medical field. It's already diagnosed a woman with a rare form of cancerthat doctors couldn't identify.

There's also an AI that plays Texas Hold'em. It outplayed four professional poker players by about $1.75 million in chips. Its technology is expected to be harnessed in fields where using misinformation to negotiate can be a benefit, like in military strategy or business negotiations.

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