Altus Blog - All systems are Go!

Last week, Google's in house Artificial Intelligence department announced a breakthrough. Their software has learnt to play a game. Not just any game, but Go. It is thousands of years old, and considered by many to be the hardest board game in the world with more potential move combinations than you can shake a stick at and a requirement to see patterns and combinations and to play by'feel'. The complexity of the game is one thing, but the real point here is that Google's AI engine has learnt to play the game.