By Paul Kitcatt

Earlier this year, a computer beat a world champion at the game of Go. It’s a big deal, because while winning at chess just needed a computer fast enough to analyse all the possible moves in any given situation, ‘the size of the search required for Go is larger than chess by more than the number of atoms in the universe‘. So the computer couldn’t win by brute force; it had to learn to play the game, and it got better and better over time.

Meanwhile, a robot receptionist debuted in a Japanese department store:

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Source: The Drum