New chips will make AlphaGo's brain obsolete

Renowned Go player Lee Se-dol lost his five-game match with Google's AlphaGo computer program on Tuesday in Seoul, raising concerns about the formidable capability of artificial intelligence.

The best human Go player won only a single game against the program, which is powered by about 2,000 central processing units and 170 graphic processing units - generating a computing capability far superior to the human brain.

However, such hardware will soon be a thing of the past.