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A Game Plan for the AI Boom

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A Game Plan for the AI Boom Ten years ago, AlphaGo trounced human competitors—and its legacy is still present in today’s most advanced bots. Thore Graepel may have been the first human to be vanquished by a superintelligence. In 2015, on his first day as a researcher at Google DeepMind, he was challenged to play against the earliest iteration of AlphaGo—a computer program developed by DeepMind tha...
The article presents a thoughtful analysis of the impact and implications of AlphaGo on the development of AI, particularly in the realm of generative AI such as ChatGPT. The author discusses how concepts and techniques used by AlphaGo have been instrumental in developing reasoning models that enable AI systems to tackle complex tasks more effectively. However, it also points out challenges such as the difficulty of evaluating "general intelligence" and potential economic disruptions caused by t...