AlphaGo beating humans via self-play learning at the toughest board games feels a bit like cameras beating human painters at photorealism.
Impressive but probably not significant in the way people think it is.
Very significant in other ways though. ML = Ritalin for computers.
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surveillance capitalism is converging with automation capitalism. it is exactly as significant as it appears, just on a different timescale from what many people expect.

