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AlphaGo versus Alpha Male
Google's AlphaGo AI famously beat Lee Sedol, one of the world's best Go players, during a contest in March this year. (Source: flickr/Buster Benson)
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AI Threat Is Tech's Fart in the Room
The Japanese company watched electricity consumption rocket with its buildout of the country's fourth network – and that was before it had many customers.
After several years of talk about the rise of the robots, the industry still seems to be a long way from having a self-driving network.
The arrival of a new and supremely articulate chatbot is a worry for anyone whose job involves the written word, including many in the telecom sector.
The e-commerce giant is reckoned to employ about 1.5 million people worldwide and would be loss-making without its cloud business.
With a legion of vendors now advertising themselves as 'end-to-end' providers, this year is likely to see more open RAN washing.
BBO (BridgeBase Online)'s robots aren't bad, but the problems aren't with play so much as they are with bidding -- which requires MUCH more "intelligence" than the basic logic of simple card play involves.
I'll be more impressed if a bridge-playing computer can solve the ACBL's monthly bridge-bidding problems.
And please, do not use the word "creativity" in the context of algorithms.
T.
*Who wrote this article title? Clearly, LR editors have a lot of fun behind the scenes :)
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