If you happen to have a free 30 hours or so, I would highly recommend watching Google’s AlphaGo program take on one of the best players in the world at the ancient Chinese board game Go. If you don’t have that much time, you could instead just watch the 6-hour third match, where the program wrapped up the best of five series. It’s literally history being made.
Some news outlets have covered this feat, but I don’t think many people understand how monumental this actually is. Back in 1997, when Garry Kasparov was beaten by IBM’s Deep Blue in chess, people were more excited about the future of computing. But when you look at the underlying technology, the AlphaGo win is so much more impressive because it required a computer to actually think like a human to beat a human.