Expectations for a match-up between a professional StarCraft player and sophisticated AI ratcheted up last year after an AI program beat a highly ranked human player at Go, one of the world's most difficult board games.
The ultimate aim is to create an AI program that is indistinguishable from a human being to claim a gold medal and $100,000.
Experts did not expect an AI program to beat a human professional for at least a decade, until AlphaGo beat a European champion player last year.
Its DeepMind business inside Google developed an AI program that beat one of the world's best players at the board game Go.
The next step in launching an AI program is to systematically evaluate needs and capabilities and then develop a prioritized portfolio of projects.
MIT Media Lab researchers have created an AI program that can write horror stories in collaboration with humans via Twitter, reports David Wade for CBS Boston.
Last month a research team at the company released an AI program capable of reading a piece of text, and answering simple questions about that text, more accurately than anything ever built before.
Leadership must realize that earning even a fraction of the value data offer takes more than simply bolting an AI program into one department or asking IT to digitize operations.
