Kurtzweil is fun and makes some interesting points but when he starts saying he's going to take supplements so he can live long enough to have his consciousness downloaded into a computer... you know...
Did you follow the story about DeepMind's AlphaGo beating the Go champion? The most interesting part of the story is that the computer program learned how to improve its game by playing itself over and over again. Essentially, it's self taught, making it very different from Deep Blue.
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