After winning its three-game match against Chinese grandmaster Ke Jie, the world's top Go player, AlphaGo, is retiring. Today, in Wuzhen, China, AlphaGo won its third game against Ke Jie, and much as in the other two, the contest held little drama, even as the machine's peerless play sent the usual ripples across the worldwide Go community. Today, during the press conference following the game, Hassabis and DeepMind announced they will publicly release 50 games AlphaGo played against itself inside the vast data centers that underpin Google's online empire. After the match in China, DeepMind is disbanding the team that worked on the game, freeing top researchers like Silver and Thore Graepel to spend their time working on the rest of AI's future.

Go champion'speechless' after 2nd loss to machine Internet users outside China could watch this week's games live but Chinese censors blocked most mainland web users from seeing the Google site carrying the feed. Google says 60 million people in China watched online when AlphaGo played South Korea's go champion in March 2016. Chinese Go player Ke Jie reacts as he plays a match against Google's artificial intelligence program, AlphaGo, during the Future of Go Summit in Wuzhen in eastern China's Zhejiang Province. On Thursday, AlphaGo "thought that Ke Jie played perfectly" for the first 50 moves, Hassabis said at a news conference.

Google's AI AlphaGo has done it again: it's defeated Ke Jie, the world's number one Go player, in the first game of a three-part match. "I think everyone recognizes that Ke Jie is the strongest human player," 9th-dan professional and commentator Michael Redmond said before the match. Interesting that Ke Jie has decided to play an very early 3-3 point as he knows #AlphaGo likes to play there. Friday will see AlphaGo further put to the test in two stipulation matches; one where it acts as a teammate to two Chinese pros playing each other, and another where it takes on five Chinese pros all at once.