The future appears to be closing in on us. I wonder when this sort of programming might get applied to stock market investing.....
"Eighteen years after a computer beat then-reigning world champion Garry Kasparov at chess, a machine has defeated a professional player at the ancient eastern board game Go. The new advance is much bigger, artificial intelligence (AI) researchers say, as Go is such a computationally demanding game that even a decade ago some researchers thought a computer would never defeat a human expert. What's more, the machine won not by virtue of overwhelming computational power, but by employing "machine learning" tools that enable it to teach itself and to think more like humans do."
"... the program relies on "deep neural networks" —computer programs that mimic the connections of neurons in the brain and have the capacity to learn, as the team reports online today in Nature."
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/01/huge-leap-forward-computer-mimics-human-brain-beats-professional-game-go
