Google AI beats one of world's best Go players
 

Google AI beats one of world's best Go players
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The ancient Chinese game Go is officially ** longer too tough for artificial intelligence.*

Until recently, AIs from Google, Facebook and others were able to win against some human opponents, but **t the top professionals. Then, in January, Google's AlphaGo AI beat the European Champ Fan Hui. And **w, the same AI beat the world's top player of the last decade, Lee Sedol, after a three-and-a-half hour game.*

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The match was the first in Google's DeepMind Challenge Match, a $1-million, 5-game challenge played at the Four Seasons Hotel in Seoul. Lee resigned with about half an hour on his clock; you can check out the entire game, below.* Read more...


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