AlphaGo's Designers Explore New AI After Winning Big in China

After winning its three-game match against Chinese grandmaster Ke Jie, the world's top Go player, AlphaGo, is retiring. Today, in Wuzhen, China, AlphaGo won its third game against Ke Jie, and much as in the other two, the contest held little drama, even as the machine's peerless play sent the usual ripples across the worldwide Go community. Today, during the press conference following the game, Hassabis and DeepMind announced they will publicly release 50 games AlphaGo played against itself inside the vast data centers that underpin Google's online empire. After the match in China, DeepMind is disbanding the team that worked on the game, freeing top researchers like Silver and Thore Graepel to spend their time working on the rest of AI's future.