No more playing games: AlphaGo AI to tackle some real world challenges

Humankind lost another important battle with artificial intelligence (AI) last month when AlphaGo beat the world's leading Go player Ke Jie by three games to zero. AlphaGo is an AI program developed by DeepMind, part of Google's parent company Alphabet. Last year it beat another leading player, Lee Se-dol, by four games to one, but since then AlphaGo has substantially improved. AlphaGo will now retire from playing Go, leaving behind a legacy of games played against itself. They've been described by one Go expert as like "games from far in the future", which humans will study for years to improve their own play.