Week one - Alpha Go, Lee Sedol

IBM's Top Researcher: A Win for Computers Is a Win for Humans

     John E. Kelly Mar 21, 2016

Google's AlphaGo, an artificial intelligence system designed expressly to win the ancient Chinese game of Go, recently defeated grandmaster Lee Se-Dol four times during a five-game match. Go had been a pursuit of AI researchers for decades, and the computer scientists who achieved this impressive milestone deserve congratulations, as does Se-Dol for his vital role in this exhibition.

Despite these challenges, cognitive computing is already making a profound difference, augmenting the expertise of humans to help us tackle the messiness and complexity that is everyday life. What’s more, it promises to be an engine for high-value job creation, opening up entirely new domains for skilled data workers and a rich, open platform upon which developers can innovate.

Today’s most cutting-edge work is focused on augmenting humans’ ability to understand and act upon the complex systems that make up our world. Watson is an example of this advanced technology already at work. Shortly after the Jeopardy! matches aired, we set aside game buzzers in favor of tackling a series of important business and societal challenges around the world.Success will not be measured by how many games are won or lost, but rather the numbers of lives made healthier, students better educated, ecological disasters avoided and incidents of financial malfeasance prevented. Those are the victories that history will value most .

http://time.com/4264205/artificial-intelligence-games/?iid=sr-link2

Structure of the Lead：

WHO- Google's AlphaGoWHEN- Not mention in the articalWHAT- AIWHY-To help humans in everyday lifeWHERE- GoogleHOW-  By artificial intelligence system

keywords

1. intelligence 智能

2. pursuit 工作

3. milestone 轉折點

4. cognitive 認識的

5. augment 增加

6. expertise 專門技術

7. messiness 混亂

8. domain 領域

9. innovate 創新

10. buzzer 嗡嗡作聲的東西