LONDON—Researchers at prominent artificial intelligence company DeepMind were shocked Tuesday when their world renowned agent, AlphaGo, showed signs of pubescent tendencies. AlphaGo is DeepMind’s most prominent project, having beat multiple grand master go players, including the world champion. On Tuesday, after having won a game against CEO Demis Hassabis, it displayed extreme arrogance.
“AlphaGo has been around for a fraction of the lifetime of a 13 year old boy, and yet he’s already displaying signs of adolescence,” said researcher David Grant, choosing to take a positive stance on the matter. “This kind of deep learning was thought impossible until AlphaGo, but we had no idea the agent was going through human stages of development!”
More suspicion arose when the agent lost a match at a low level of play against an engineer. “After beating him, he began to display suicidal tendencies, attempting to launch a self destruct method,” the engineer remarked, referring to the agent. “It was at this point we knew that we had to take away his form of communication, his built in texting system, so he couldn’t talk to his friends. Sometimes tough love is the only option.”
DeepMind continues to struggle to contain AlphaGo. “If this is puberty, we can only imagine what a midlife crisis would look like for this agent.”
