Rise of Deep Mind — Google’s General Purpose AI

The story of a London startup and their $600m acquisition by Google

On March 9, 2016 Twitter and international media erupted with the news of Alpha Go, an AI algorithm winning against the world №2 player of Go, a game invented in China more than 2,500 years ago and believed to be the oldest board game continuously played to the present day.

Alpha-Go won 4 out 5 matches against Lee Sedol.

The world was suddenly talking about the rise of AI. The ethics of AI was suddenly the hot topic everywhere. Apart from the $1M prize what was so great about the game was that the algorithm had not been written to defeat Lee Sedol specifically. The algorithm was…