AlphaGo – Google DeepMind's AI that beat Go champion for first time

Google DeepMind has come out with its AlphaGo artificial intelligence that can crack trevigintillion (1072) possible positions in the game Go and beat a human champion. "It was the first time a computer program has ever beaten a professional Go player," Demis Hassabis from Google DeepMind wrote in a blog. What makes Go a hard task in AI is the magnitude of complexity in the game. "That's more than the number of atoms in the universe, and more than a googol times larger than chess," wrote Hassabis. Google DeepMind tested AlphaGo against a three-time European Go champion.