In A Major Breakthrough, Google's AI Beat A Top Human Player At Go

Artificial intelligence researchers at DeepMind, a research unit that operates under the umbrella, just surpassed a very significant benchmark in machine learning. It was first reported on Wednesday in Nature that the artificial intelligence system dubbed AlphaGo successfully beat a professional Go player, Fan Hui, in series of five matches. Go, a complex Chinese board game played by two players with black and white stones, has traditionally been deemed an excellent test for AI. According to a Google press release, previously computers have only been ale to play the game as successfully as amateur Go players, making this win all that much more significant. AlphaGo also won all but one of 500 matches against other top AI Go programs (a 99.8% success rate).