Steven's week 65: BIG breakthrough by Google Deepmind and the "Alexa Everywhere' strategy of Amazon!

Steven Van Belleghem

There as a big breakthrough this week by Google Deepmind. Google Deepmind launched Alpha Go Zero. This machine has now beaten the Alpha Go Master. The machine got beaten by the machine. Isn't that cool. The big difference is that Alpha Go Zero (from Google Deepmind) has learned to play Go without the help of humans. The machine just learned it by playing against itself. And this is a big breakthrough in the field of artificial intelligence and machine learning. Other important item: the Alexa Everywhere strategy of Amazon. They want Alexa to be part of every aspect of our live. This week they announced that Garmin, the car navigation system, will use Alexa in cars. And this is just the beginning of the Alexa everywhere strategy