The rise of artificial intelligence is gaining momentum, and, coupled with data collection on an unprecedented scale, it heralds a new age of insights for industries like insurance. Last year when a master of the strategy game Go was beaten by an artificial intelligence (AI) program, it was considered a landmark moment. There are important lessons in the story of how AI reached this level of proficiency. The AI studied past games of champion players, but it was only by playing different versions of itself millions of times that it got good enough to win against a human master.
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