AlphaGo shows its true strength in 3rd victory against Lee Sedol
Skeptics have said that achieving this milestone would not happen within this decade, our lifetimes or even ever. It happened yesterday.<p>It took Lee Sedol many decades of his life to train to achieve this level. And his ability to pass on his skills is limited. Now that a computer has achieved this level, the state of the neural network behind it can be serialized and ran into an unlimited number of computers and have millions of systems that are more proficient at Go than the best player in the world.<p>People have said that achieving the cognitive level of the human brain requires to match its computational power. But if you take out all the parasympathetic and motor boilerplate, what is actually left for mental tasks is much less from that, most of that power is not even recruited for higher level mental tasks. That lowers the bar for strong AI.<p>Then, strong AI can be immortal, and never physically deteriorate from aging. Strong AI can multiply infinitely and communicate at a rate that would be equivalent to writing millions of books in a second. It could transfer all its knowledge in seconds. It can also recursively improve itself. This advantage will lower the bar for strong AI even more.