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A FIRST DEFEAT. "In October 2015, a computer Go program called AlphaGo, powered by DeepMind, beat the European Go champion Fan Hui, a 2 dan (out of 9 dan possible) professional, five to zero. This is the first time an artificial intelligence (AI) defeated a professional player." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_DeepMind View in LinkedIn

MOBILE GENETIC ELEMENTS. “Some cut and paste, others copy and paste and both spread within the genome. They modify host genetic identities through insertion, recombination, or the epigenetic regulation of genetic content. They co-evolve with the host, interact in a modular manner and additionally generate highly adaptive immune systems for host organisms from the simplest prokaryotes (CRISPRs/Cas system) to the most complex eukaryotes (VJD-Systems).” https://lnkd.in/dWwkKpD View in LinkedIn

SELF-TAUGHT. "The algorithms we build are capable of learning for themselves directly from raw experience or data, and are general in that they can perform well across a wide variety of tasks straight out of the box." https://deepmind.com/ View in LinkedIn

GENOMIC PARASITES. “We now recognize that DNA is not solely a genetic storage medium but is also a kind of ecological habitat. Many of such mobile genetic elements have been found within the last 40 years as inhabitants of all genomes.” https://lnkd.in/dWwkKpD View in LinkedIn

JUMPING GENES. “Several key players that organise the genetic content compositions of host organisms such as, e.g., endogenous viruses and its defectives, transposons, retrotransposons, LTRs (long terminal repeats), non-LTRs (non-long terminal repeats), LINEs (long interspersed nuclear elements), SINEs (short interspersed nuclear elements), ALUs, group I introns, group II introns, phages, plasmids.” https://lnkd.in/dWwkKpD View in LinkedIn

EXTERNAL VARIATION. “Key roles now act as non-random genetic change operators in the production of complex evolutionary inventions.” https://lnkd.in/dWwkKpD View in LinkedIn

GRAMMAR DRIVES MEANING. “In natural languages/codes it is not the structure of syntax that determines the meaning of sequences. In nearly all cases it is the hidden deep grammar which determines meaning for the recipient of the message.” https://lnkd.in/dWwkKpD View in LinkedIn

COLLABORATIVE GROUPS. “So the results of these interactions may lead to structurally diverse groups with important different biological roles such as the catalytic core of key players of the present RNA world, i.e., ribozymes, self-splicing introns, telomerase and its context-dependent altering gene expression by inducing ribosomal frameshifting in several viruses.” http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4160522/ View in LinkedIn

ADDITIVE COMPLEXES. “Complex three-dimensional structures can be built by consortia of single RNA sequence strings.” http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4160522 View in LinkedIn