Chinese Engineers Want to Pit Their AI Against AlphaGo

Earlier this month, Google's Go-playing AI wiped the floor with the game's existing world champion. Now, a team of engineers from China plan to challenge AlphaGo with their own artificial intelligence system. Reuters reports that China's state-owned Shanghai Securities News announced the idea today. The report explains that the scientists, who are part of the China Computer Go team, will lay down a challenge for Google before the end of the year. It's not clear what the challenge will be, but presumably it will, you know, involve playing Go.