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As in AI taking over the world? No, since AlphaGo is optimized to do just one thing.

The underlying technology is far more general than than you think. In addition to playing Go, it has already been used to play video games[1], diagnose diseases[2], and make Google's datacenters more efficient.[3]

1. https://deepmind.com/blog/enabling-continual-learning-in-neu...

2. https://deepmind.com/applied/deepmind-health/

3. https://deepmind.com/blog/deepmind-ai-reduces-google-data-ce...

In each case with lots of manual tweaking to get the best performance. Deep learning is not magic; you need to find the right kind of architecture for your problem, and that requires prior knowledge. Humans will still be in the loop for at least the next decade or so.

> Humans will still be in the loop for at least the next decade or so.

Reassuring. Really.

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