AI Defeats European Champion At The Board Game Go: World Champion Lee Sedol Is Its Next Opponent

Google's AlphaGo AI swept all of its five matches against European Go champion Fan Hui. Now, the team behind the deep-learning program is preparing for AlphaGo's upcoming match against world champion Lee Sedol in March. After soundly beating the reigning European Go champion, Google's AI computer is looking to go head-to-head with one of the best players in the world in a match set to be held in South Korea in March. In a study featured in the journal Nature, researchers from Google's London-based AI company DeepMind described how their AlphaGo program was able to win all five of its Go matches against the European champion Fan Hui. Go, a board game that was invented in China some 2,500 years ago, involves having players alternately place white and black "stones" on a grid consisting of 19 vertical and 19 horizontal lines.