A computer program that can outplay humans in the abstract game of Go will redefine our relationship with machines.
Napoleon had it and so did Charles Darwin. Tennis champion Roger
Federer has it in spades. The dictionary defines intuition as knowledge
obtained without conscious reasoning. It is decision-making based on
apparently instinctual responses; thinking without thinking.
Intuition is a very human skill, or so we
like to think. Or, more accurately, so we liked to think. In what could
prove to be a landmark moment for artificial intelligence, scientists
announce this week that they have created an intuitive computer. The
machine acts according to its programming, but it also chooses what to
do on the basis of something — knowledge, experience or a combination of
the two — that its programmers cannot predict or fully explain. And, in
the limited tests carried out so far, the computer has proved that it
can make these intuitive decisions much more effectively than the most
skilled humans can. The machines are not just on the rise, they have
nudged ahead
Read the editorial in Nature
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