The advancement of AI is one of the threats to our current cyber security and one of the enhancements we can look forward to. This piece from The Guardian has nothing to do with either of those points – just that it beat a human at a game! It is still worth a read to understand where the technology is going.
Further Reading
Artificial Intelligence was the subject of last years BBC Reith Lectures – delivered by Professor Stuart Russell, founder of the Centre for Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence, at the University of California, Berkeley.
Here is a link to the posts about the lectures: