Google's AlphaGo computer improves it's ability by playing itself. I had to re-read that to see if it made sense, and I'm not sure it does even now. The article I read was in The Guardian, not known for treating subjects lightly, but a few sentences in, it reveals that AlphaGo had to think 'extremely hard about the problem'. Now, whatever computers can do, they cannot 'think' unless we have redefined the meaning of the word think, which is probably what the reporter was doing. In actual fact, the computer was simply performing countless number of calculations to arrive at a particular move that was better than the previous option. So, is that thinking? Do we humans do the same thing? ..or (as I suspect) we use an as yet unknown method of arriving at the same thing as AlphaGo.
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