Online translation couldn't help our story on the new wave in artificial intelligence, but the new wave in artificial intelligence is improving online translation. And today, as Google rolls out a new incarnation of its translation software, it comes with a certain irony. We ran it the through Google Translate, but it spat out some English that didn't quite make sense. But we also had a problem: the source of this news was in Korean, and no one in our office spoke the language.

We needed to get his latest wins into the story.

After playing AlphaGo, Lee said the machine opened his eyes to new ways of playing the ancient game, and indeed, it had. Even as it surpasses human talents, AI can also pull humans to new heights-a theme that ran through our magazine story. On a Friday in late April, we were about an hour away from sending this story to the printer when I got an email.Īccording to the email, Lee had won all five matches-and all against top competition-since his loss to AlphaGo. The match between AlphaGo and Korean grandmaster Lee Sedol was so exhilarating, so upsetting, and so unexpectedly powerful, we turned it into a cover story for the magazine. Last March, a computer built by a team of Google engineers beat one of the world's top players at the ancient game of Go.

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