Software playing by the rules could give us air cargo humans an edge

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In March, an historic event took place in Seoul, South Korea: a piece of software beat one of the best Go players in the world.

Go, a Chinese boardgame, played for almost 2,500 years and rivalling Chess in terms of its complexity, was one of the last frontiers in which the human mind was held to be superior over artificial intelligence.

However, this was not any old piece of software – AlphaGo was developed by Google as part of its DeepMind artificial intelligence programme.

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