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ai-winter
A period when AI research funding and interest declined, preceding the resurgence marked by breakthroughs like AlphaGo.
1 chapter across 1 book
The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma (2023)Mustafa Suleyman; Michael Bhaskar
CHAPTER 4
Chapter 4 recounts the author's firsthand experience witnessing the emergence of artificial intelligence as a transformative technology, beginning with DeepMind's Deep Q-Network (DQN) learning to play Atari games and culminating in AlphaGo's historic victory over world champion Lee Sedol. The chapter highlights AI's ability to discover novel strategies and knowledge beyond human intuition, marking a pivotal moment in AI research and signaling the onset of a new technological wave with broad implications for solving complex real-world problems.