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’ Photograph: Blutgruppe/Corbis Artificial intelligence (AI) AlphaGo: beating humans is one thing but to really succeed AI must work with them Google DeepMind’s success is significant, but artificial intelligence practitioners must teach the public there’s more to AI than trying to replace them Michael Cook Tue 15 Mar ‘16 14.
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 Can we teach a computer to be as realistically fallible and prone to tricks as your best friend is?
 Can we look to the unexplored parts of artificial intelligence, the empty spaces on the far side of the board, and think more broadly about what AI can do and be?
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 Michael Cook is an AI researcher at Goldsmiths, University of Falmouth Topics Loading comments… Trouble loading?
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