{"id":220822,"date":"2026-03-07T01:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T06:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/07\/the-moment-that-kicked-off-the-ai-revolution\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T01:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T06:10:09","slug":"the-moment-that-kicked-off-the-ai-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/07\/the-moment-that-kicked-off-the-ai-revolution\/","title":{"rendered":"The moment that kicked off the AI revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2518450-the-moment-that-kicked-off-the-ai-revolution\/\">The moment that kicked off the AI revolution<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2518450-the-moment-that-kicked-off-the-ai-revolution\/\">https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2518450-the-moment-that-kicked-off-the-ai-revolution\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-07 01:01:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.newscientist.com\">www.newscientist.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Title\">Lee Sedol faced AlphaGo in 2016<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Credit\">AP Photo\/Ahn Young-joon\/Alamy<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The first time that AlphaGo revealed its full power, it prompted a visceral reaction. Lee Sedol, the world\u2019s greatest player of the ancient Chinese board game Go, had grown visibly agitated at the artificial intelligence\u2019s prowess. The hushed crowd in downtown Seoul, South Korea, could barely contain its gasps. It was quickly dawning on Lee, and the tens of millions watching at home, that this AI was different to those that had come before.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t just beating Lee, but it was doing so with an almost human-like aptitude. \u201cAlphaGo actually does have an intuition,\u201d Google co-founder Sergey Brin told New Scientist in 2016, shortly after AlphaGo went 3-0 up. \u201cIt makes beautiful moves. It even creates more beautiful moves than most of us could think of.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"js-content-prompt-opportunity\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The series ended with Google DeepMind\u2019s AlphaGo system winning 4-1. Lee said he was \u201cin shock\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>It is now a decade since this defining moment for AlphaGo and AI at large. Marvelling at AI is a commonplace experience with the success of large language models like ChatGPT. AlphaGo was, in many ways, our first glimpse at what was to come. Ten years on, what is the legacy of AlphaGo and has the technology lived up to its potential?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLarge language models are now quite different in some ways from AlphaGo, but there\u2019s actually an underlying technological thread that really hasn\u2019t changed,\u201d says Chris Maddison at the University of Toronto, who was part of the original AlphaGo team.<\/p>\n<p>That underlying technology is neural networks \u2013 mathematical structures inspired by the brain and written into code. Historically, creating a game-playing machine would involve a human writing down the rules it should follow in different situations. With a neural network, the machine learns by itself.<\/p>\n<p>But even with a neural network, cracking Go was a tall order. The ancient Chinese game, which&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2518450-the-moment-that-kicked-off-the-ai-revolution\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The moment that kicked off the AI revolution https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2518450-the-moment-that-kicked-off-the-ai-revolution\/ Publish Date: 2026-03-07 01:01:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":220823,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/06172512\/SEI_288143490.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220822"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220822"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":220824,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220822\/revisions\/220824"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}