In March 2016, Google DeepMind’s AlphaGo program, powered by machine learning, defeated South Korean grandmaster Lee Sedol on the game of Go. This is the first time an artificial intelligence program beat a top-ranked Go professional. The match, and AlphaGo’s win also brought attention to the game of Go in the West.
Despite defeat in the first match, “this is the greatest honor in a lifetime,” Ke said of playing against AlphaGo.
Teaching computers to master Go has long been considered a holy grail for artificial intelligence scientists — there are more possible configurations of the board than there are atoms in the universe. Before this week, AlphaGo had already clocked many victories against top-ranked masters, a significant advancement that happened far sooner than experts expected.
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