AI AlphaGo is an artificial intelligence (AI) system developed by DeepMind, a subsidiary of Google. In 2016, it shocked the world when it defeated Lee Se-dol, one of the greatest Go players of all time, with a score of 4-1 in a historic match.
I believe that the biggest lesson that AlphaGo brings is a realistic and clear view of the AI era - proving that AI is no longer a distant, vague future, but a reality knocking on every door. AlphaGo is like a'roadmap from the future', sending a clear signal to humanity about how the world will change," Lee Se-dol later shared.
AlphaGo has proven the potential of artificial intelligence and according to Google, its breakthrough has led the construction of systems on the path to general artificial intelligence (AGI). According to Google, AGI will be the most breakthrough technology ever invented and has the potential to become the optimal tool to promote science, medicine and work productivity.
Since AlphaGo's victory, Google has applied this system's breakthrough approach to many fields of science and mathematics and achieved many successes. The world's technology giant has also used AI to better understand the genome, promote fusion energy research, improve weather forecasting capabilities and many other fields.
However, Google believes that to achieve fundamental breakthroughs such as creating unlimited clean energy or curing incurable diseases, the world needs general AI systems that can find potential structures and connections between different fields, helping to make new hypotheses just like the greatest scientists do.
The future of intelligence
For an AI to be truly general, it needs to understand the physical world. Google built Gemini in a multi-modal direction from the beginning so that it could understand not only through language but also through sound, video, images and code to program the model of the world.
To think and reason multi-tasking, the latest Gemini models are applying the same techniques that Google pioneered with AlphaGo and AlphaZero.
Google engineers believe that the intersection between Gemini's world model, AlphaGo's search and planning capabilities, and the ability to use in-depth AI tools, will be the decisive key to moving towards AGI.
Another important component of AGI is creativity. But to be completely creative, AGI will need real invention ability. A test for this ability: Can the model invent a deep and sophisticated game like Go, rather than simply offering a novel tactic like how AlphaGo defeated Lee Se-dol.
Ten years after AlphaGo's historic victory, general artificial intelligence (AGI) was right at the threshold of realization. The flame of creativity ignited from AlphaGo that day has promoted extraordinary breakthroughs, now converging to open the road to AGI, opening up a golden age of discovery and outstanding progress for humanity.
