Back to the Future of Business

Back to the Future of Business

Go is the oldest game in the world. I used to play it when I was younger, and I was intrigued when I was told the greatest Go masters were more deft than a computer, because Go was as much an art as a discipline. When Garry Kasparov lost to Deep Blue in a 1996 chess match in which Kasparov had no ability to psych out his opponent, the supremacy of machine over man was seen as a watershed moment. Still, no computer had beaten a Go champion.

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What If My "Dick Whitman" is AI? (I Am Not Okay With That)

What If My "Dick Whitman" is AI? (I Am Not Okay With That)

It's been 6 months since "Mad Men" closed a chapter in television history, and I am still in mourning. The writers and producers, let alone the actors, left an indelible mark, especially with the show's primary through-line {spoiler alert}: a "nobody" named Dick Whitman stole his dead commanding officer's identity, and became Don Draper, a somebody.

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