{"id":22339,"date":"2026-03-16T07:37:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T06:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/16\/the-infinity-machine-by-sebastian-mallaby-review-the-story-of-the-man-who-changed-the-world\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T07:37:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T06:37:23","slug":"the-infinity-machine-by-sebastian-mallaby-review-the-story-of-the-man-who-changed-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/16\/the-infinity-machine-by-sebastian-mallaby-review-the-story-of-the-man-who-changed-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"The Infinity Machine by Sebastian Mallaby review \u2013 the story of the man who changed the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> A journalist charts the progress of AI pioneer Demis Hassabis from child chess prodigy to Nobel prize winner<\/p>\n<p>It was March 2016, and at the Four Seasons Hotel in Seoul, the world was gathered to watch the culmination of a battle 2,500 years in the making. On one side was the South Korean Lee Se-dol, the second-highest ranking Go player in the world. On the other was AlphaGo \u2013 a computer program developed by London-based artificial intelligence research company DeepMind.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChess is the greatest game mankind has invented,\u201d game designer Alex Randolph once said. \u201cGo is the greatest game mankind has discovered.\u201d Something about the ancient Chinese duel, where players place stones on a grid, trying to capture territory, feels fundamental \u2013 inevitable, even. Chess had fallen to the robots nearly 20 years earlier, when DeepBlue beat Kasparov, but Go, with its vast decision space (there are far more legal board positions than atoms in the observable universe) remained a plucky holdout.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2026\/mar\/16\/the-infinity-machine-by-sebastian-mallaby-review-the-story-of-the-man-who-changed-the-world\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/b58b1333bf989358ca5f665da63aef6927fdbbad\/29_665_5894_4715\/master\/5894.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=6fef486e7e605a1a34d7a2ca07385752\" title=\"The Infinity Machine by Sebastian Mallaby review \u2013 the story of the man who changed the world\" \/>A journalist charts the progress of AI pioneer Demis Hassabis from child chess prodigy to Nobel prize winner<br \/>\nIt was March 2016, and at the Four Seasons Hotel in Seoul, the world was gathered to watch the culmination of a battle 2,500 years in the making. On one side was the South Korean Lee Se-dol, the second-highest ranking Go player in the world. On the other was AlphaGo \u2013 a computer program developed by London-based artificial intelligence research company DeepMind.<br \/>\n\u201cChess is the greatest game mankind has invented,\u201d game designer Alex Randolph once said. \u201cGo is the greatest game mankind has discovered.\u201d Something about the ancient Chinese duel, where players place stones on a grid, trying to capture territory, feels fundamental \u2013 inevitable, even. Chess had fallen to the robots nearly 20 years earlier, when DeepBlue beat Kasparov, but Go, with its vast decision space (there are far more legal board positions than atoms in the observable universe) remained a plucky holdout. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A journalist charts the progress of AI pioneer Demis Hassabis from child chess prodigy to Nobel prize winner It was March 2016, and at the Four Seasons Hotel in Seoul, the world was gathered to watch the culmination of a battle 2,500 years in the making. On one side was the South Korean Lee Se-dol, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/16\/the-infinity-machine-by-sebastian-mallaby-review-the-story-of-the-man-who-changed-the-world\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Infinity Machine by Sebastian Mallaby review \u2013 the story of the man who changed the world<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":22340,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22339"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}