by Benson Agoha | Technology
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| * Garry Kasparov : Credit: via Extreme Tech |
Demis Hassabis made name when, on January 26, 2014, Google shelled out £400 million for his company Deep Mind, but he wasn't a novice to the world of inventors. Before Deepmind, Hassabis had already reportedly sold his first company - a gaming business.
Rich and famous as we know Google to be, it does not spend money without justification. So to spend £400 million on a company that at that time, was an almost unknown, with no product for sale and a website that never gave out more than just a welcome message to its page, it knew there was huge value in store.
It's two years since then and times have changed. Google Deepmind, like most other Google products has fully integrated into the family of dominance. To days ago, it emerged the global champion in a contest of Artificial Intelligence (AI).
A report by Extreme Tech says Google DeepMind's AlphaGo program entered into the contest with South Korean Go champion Lee Sedol, which has so far been believed to be the best of all time so far.
But the contest that was to be held over five days, with one match per day planned, ended just after the third contest as AlphaGo maintained dominance in all three games played.
The Google software won in three resounding victories, with each being more dominant than the last.
"Google Deepmind’s achievement has been called bigger than IBM’s 1997 win against chess champion Garry Kasparov — just like Kasparov, Sedol went in predicting a clean sweep for the human side, but unlike Kasparov, ended up getting swept himself." Extreme Tech wrote.
Before the sale, PayPal founder Elon Musk was the financial muzzle behind Deep Mind and the contest, wasted no time in extending his congratulations to AlphaGo, saying many experts in the field of Artificial Intelligence could not have achieved this before the next ten years.
Rich and famous as we know Google to be, it does not spend money without justification. So to spend £400 million on a company that at that time, was an almost unknown, with no product for sale and a website that never gave out more than just a welcome message to its page, it knew there was huge value in store.It's two years since then and times have changed. Google Deepmind, like most other Google products has fully integrated into the family of dominance. To days ago, it emerged the global champion in a contest of Artificial Intelligence (AI).
A report by Extreme Tech says Google DeepMind's AlphaGo program entered into the contest with South Korean Go champion Lee Sedol, which has so far been believed to be the best of all time so far.
But the contest that was to be held over five days, with one match per day planned, ended just after the third contest as AlphaGo maintained dominance in all three games played.
The Google software won in three resounding victories, with each being more dominant than the last.
"Google Deepmind’s achievement has been called bigger than IBM’s 1997 win against chess champion Garry Kasparov — just like Kasparov, Sedol went in predicting a clean sweep for the human side, but unlike Kasparov, ended up getting swept himself." Extreme Tech wrote.
Before the sale, PayPal founder Elon Musk was the financial muzzle behind Deep Mind and the contest, wasted no time in extending his congratulations to AlphaGo, saying many experts in the field of Artificial Intelligence could not have achieved this before the next ten years.
Congrats to DeepMind! Many experts in the field thought AI was 10 years away from achieving this. https://t.co/5gGZZkud3K— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 9, 2016
And Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberge said: "Congrats to the Google DeepMind team on this historic milestone in AI research -- a third straight victory over Go grandmaster Lee Sedol. We live in exciting times."
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