What Can Artificial Intelligence Actually Do?
See if you can tell fact from science fiction.
On Tuesday, a computer program created by Google defeated a grandmaster in the boardgame Go for the fourth time—a major advance in artificial intelligence research. So what else has been going on in the field, and what can A.I. actually achieve in 2016? From autonomous soccer robots to correctly diagnosing disease, see if you can distinguish the real A.I. breakthroughs from the science fiction we’ve cooked up.