Deep Learning and the Game of Go

At the beginning of 2016, most serious Go players would have told you that a machine would never beat a Go world champion. Then, Google's AlphaGo AI beat the world's strongest player, Ke Jie 3-0. Six months later, Alpha Go Zero destroyed AlphaGo, defeating it 89 games to 11. AlphaGo was an incredible accomplishment for deep learning systems, and it's a fascinating story. Deep Learning and the Game of Go opens up the world of deep learning and AI by teaching you to build your own Go-playing machine. You'll explore key deep learning ideas like neural networks and reinforcement learning and maybe even step up your Go game a notch or two.