Chapter 1 WHAT IS ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Lee Sedol stared down at a wooden game board covered in black and white stones He was one of the best players in the world of an ancient Chinese game called Go But he had just lost the game to a computer program called AlphaGo Go is the oldest board game that people still play It started in China more than twenty five hundred years ago
Lee Sedol right studies the Go board The man on the left is placing a stone on the board for AlphaGo AlphaGo is an artificial intelligence AI program Al allows a computer to learn make decisions and react as humans do Al programs can learn to process information on their own Human programmers build computers with Al in different ways
