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Go Spotting: AlphaGo and Beyond; Robopocalypse Now? Kubo and the Two Strings

AlphaGo and Beyond: The national security blog Lawfare last month posted an article called "AlphaGo and Beyond: The Chinese Military Looks to Future 'Intelligentized' Warfare," reports Kyle Highful. "Among other things, this article discusses alleged Chinese censorship of AlphaGo's match with Ke Jie, recent advances in American and Chinese artificial intelligence, and possible military implications of AI breakthroughs like AlphaGo."Robopocalypse Now? The 2017 Summer issue of "The Bent" has an article titled "Robopocalypse Now?" that includes several paragraphs on AlphaGo as an example of the recent progress in Artificial Intelligence, reports Jeff Newmiller. The Bent is the official news magazine of the Tau Beta Pi engineering honor society. "The title was a bit of fluff... the conclusion of the article is that AI is more likely to yield surprise responses to unexpected input than to purposely mislead us." Kubo and the Two Strings: "Last weekend I watched the movie Kubo and the Two Strings (right), released in 2016 by Laika Entertainment and currently available on Netflix," writes Alicia Seifrid. "It is a stop-motion fantasy film set in feudal Japan.  Early in the film, the main character Kubo goes into the village, and you see the villagers going about their everyday lives, including two men playing go.  Thanks as ever for sharing so much enjoyable and interesting go news!"