Robert Marks: What Computers Will Never Do

"About an hour into the second game of its match against a world-ranked Go player, the Google Artificial Intelligence program AlphaGo made a move that stunned the commentators:

"I don't really know if it's a good or bad move," said Michael Redmond, a commentator on a live English broadcast. "It's a very strange move." Redmond, one of the Western world's best Go players, could only crack a smile.

"I thought it was a mistake," his broadcast partner, Chris Garlock, said with a laugh.

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