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Toward Intelligence in Photonic Systems
In the not-too-distant future, advances in machine learning will spur a new, transformative generation of optical communication and measurement systems.
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In a celebrated five-game match in March 2016, AlphaGo—an artificial-intelligence (AI) system from the Google subsidiary DeepMind—decisively defeated the 18-time world champion Lee Sedol in the ancient game of Go, a strategic board game with significantly more combinations of moves than chess. Successor programs to AlphaGo have built on that record, and one of them, AlphaZero, is now considered the strongest player in the complex game’s history. (Indeed, in November 2019, Lee Sedol announced that, in light of AI’s increasing dominance in Go, he was retiring from professional play.)
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