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DeepMind founder Demis Hassabis on how AI will shape the future

www.theverge.com/2016/3/10/11192774/demis-hassabis-interview-alphago-google-deepmind-ai

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Just talking about the significance for AI, to finish your first question, the other big thing you’ve heard me talk about is the difference between this and Deep Blue. So Deep Blue is a hand-crafted program where the programmers distilled the information from chess grandmasters into specific rules and heuristics, whereas we’ve imbued AlphaGo with the ability to learn and then it’s learnt it through practice and study, which is much more human-like.