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Go, an ancient Chinese game that's notorious for its strategic difficulty, is a critical milestone for artificial intelligence. Computers have been beating people at chess since 1997 by efficiently searching through possible moves. But Go is a whole different beast; to win, a computer has to think more like a person using their intuition. So when the AlphaGo program designed by DeepMind beat Lee Sedol, one of the world's best Go players, in 2016, it was astonishing. Even more astonishing, it played in a way that was surprising and original1 to experienced Go players.