Google's AlphaGo is the best Go player in the world

In the latest round of man versus machine, machine has come out on top. Google's AlphaGo beat Go world champion Ke Jie for a second time in as many days, taking an unassailable lead in the three-part series. By rights, Deepmind's AI can now be considered the world's best Go player, having beaten the game's two biggest names in a little under a year. Although today's result wasn't as "close" as the first match, where AlphaGo won by just half a point, Deepmind CEO Demis Hassabis said that Ke Jie played "perfectly" for much of the contest before he resigned, at least according to AlphaGo's evaluations. "For the first 100 moves it was the closest we've ever seen anyone play against the Master version of AlphaGo," Hassabis confirmed in the post-game press conference. "Today's game was different from the first," Ke said, reported by The Verge.