Google’s artificial intelligence arm DeepMind made headlines last year when its AlphaGo computer program beat a top-ranked Go player. But the company has gone one better, writes Ian Sample, creating “an AI so powerful that it derived thousands of years of human knowledge of the game before inventing better moves of its own, all in the space of three days.”
“The feat marks a milestone on the road to general-purpose AIs that can do more than thrash humans at board games. Because AlphaGo Zero learns on its own from a blank slate, its talents can now be turned to a host of real-world problems,” Sample writes for The Guardian.
Still, “[w]hile AlphaGo Zero is a step towards a general-purpose AI, it can only work on problems that can be perfectly simulated in a computer, making tasks such as driving a car out of the question.”
For goodness sake, change your password. “The threats to our most personal data, our businesses, our infrastructure, our democracy, are absolutely real,” writes Google executive Gerhard Eschelbeck for CNN Opinion. But you don’t have to be a cyber whizz to see why the problem might get worse.
“According to recent research (ironically, based on anonymized data collected from security breaches), the most common password last year was ‘123456.’ A Google survey shows the No. 1 thing experts do to secure their data is update their software; that wasn't even in a top-five answer for non-experts in the same study. When I’m out of the ‘security bubble’ and talk to people about important security measures like two-step verification and security keys, I get blank stares.
“We aren't even close to where we need to be.”
“The feat marks a milestone on the road to general-purpose AIs that can do more than thrash humans at board games. Because AlphaGo Zero learns on its own from a blank slate, its talents can now be turned to a host of real-world problems,” Sample writes for The Guardian.
Still, “[w]hile AlphaGo Zero is a step towards a general-purpose AI, it can only work on problems that can be perfectly simulated in a computer, making tasks such as driving a car out of the question.”
For goodness sake, change your password. “The threats to our most personal data, our businesses, our infrastructure, our democracy, are absolutely real,” writes Google executive Gerhard Eschelbeck for CNN Opinion. But you don’t have to be a cyber whizz to see why the problem might get worse.
“According to recent research (ironically, based on anonymized data collected from security breaches), the most common password last year was ‘123456.’ A Google survey shows the No. 1 thing experts do to secure their data is update their software; that wasn't even in a top-five answer for non-experts in the same study. When I’m out of the ‘security bubble’ and talk to people about important security measures like two-step verification and security keys, I get blank stares.
“We aren't even close to where we need to be.”
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