Why the Copyright Directive Lacks (Artificial) Intelligence – Copybuzz

"Artificial Intelligence (AI) is hot. Although its capabilities have been steadily increasing for years, it was the victory of DeepMind’s AlphaGo program over the top Go expert Lee Se-dol last year that alerted many to the rapid pace of development in the AI field. The win was even more significant than the earlier defeat of the reigning world chess champion Garry Kasparov by IBM’s Deep Blue AI system in 1997. Where Deep Blue won by searching through 200 million possible moves per second, overwhelming its opponent with brute computational force, AlphaGo won by thinking like a human – only better. It even came up with such an unprecedented and brilliant tactic that a former European Go champion said: “It’s not a human move. I’ve never seen a human play this move. So beautiful.”"