Daily Report: AlphaGo Shows How Far Artificial Intelligence Has Come

Last year, a Google computer program known as DeepMind's AlphaGo beat one of the world's top players in the game of Go, a two-player board game that originated in China more than 2,000 years earlier. The event made headlines the world over, including in The New York Times, as a sign of the increasing strength of artificial intelligence versus human brainpower. On Tuesday, AlphaGo was at it again. This time, the Google artificial intelligence program took on the top-ranked Chinese Go player, Ke Jie, in Wuzhen, China, as part of a three-game match. AlphaGo was victorious in the first game, writes Paul Mozur, a New York Times technology reporter, causing Mr. Ke to call the program "like a god of Go."