Three Things Artificial Intelligence did in 2016

The post says AI was moving from science fiction into reality, and that 2016 brought several notable accomplishments. It focuses on AlphaGo’s Go victory, an AI-made Rembrandt painting, and Google’s translation system reaching new results, including creating its own language.

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• In 2016, artificial intelligence stopped seeming like just science fiction and began to show concrete results.
• In March, DeepMind’s AlphaGo beat the world Go champion 4 to 1 and received an honorary master title.
• In April, an AI system created a new painting in the style of Rembrandt, after being trained with the artist’s works for more than a year.
• Google Neural Machine Translation began translating between two languages without prior examples of those combinations and ended up creating its own language.
• The text concludes that these advances brought the idea of a true artificial intelligence even closer.