judgment intuition, things like that. what we see now in this era of artificial intelligence and machine learning is that computers are getting really good at those abilities which until recently we thought were the domain of human beings alone. we all know computers have been able to beat human chess masters. we know they have been able to beat jeopardy champions and that is harder because it is a more complicated way of thinking. why is it so important that the computer has been able to beat the world s go champion, the chinese game that many people regard as being almost impossible? go has been completely different and computers have been laughbly bad at it until a couple years ago. one reason is that there are so many possible go moves that you can t simulate your way to victory. there are more possible go moves than atoms in the universe. in the old world of computting