In this episode we discuss the advent of AlphaGo, an artificial intelligence program created by DeepMind that was the first to beat a top-ranked professional player at Go. This accomplishment in 2016 came nearly a decade before most experts thought it was possible, and brings up many interesting questions about the rate of AI progress, narrow vs. general artificial intelligence, intuition, and more.

Correction: Lee Sedol wasn't the world champion at the time he was defeated, but was second in international titles at 18. AlphaGo later beat the number 1 ranked player Ke Jie in 2017.

References:

AlphaGo Documentary - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXuK6gekU1Y

Terrence McKenna - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terence_McKenna

3 Blue 1 Brown on neural networks - https://youtu.be/aircAruvnKk

Music:

https://soundcloud.com/trevor-villwock/broken-franglish

https://soundcloud.com/trevor-villwock/lattice-for-climbing