4 – AlphaGo, with Patrick Chapin

Patrick Chapin (of Top Level Podcast) joins us as a guest-host to talk about AlphaGo’s recent victory over Go master Lee Sedol. We get a primer on how AlphaGo works, a recap of all five games in the match, and thoughts on what this means. (The airing of this episode was pushed up, so we can pretend to be sorta-timely) Links: Wikipedia Bots John Henry The NSA’s Skynet Program A tribe of humans without numbers Patrick’s book, Next Level Magic “On The Origin of Circuits“, discussing a chip hardware evolution experiment