A computer designed by Google researchers has beaten the world’s top Go player for the second game in a row, capturing the best-of-three match in Wuzhen, China, and confirming AI’s supremacy in what many consider as one of humanity’s most complex boardgames.
Ke Jie, a 19-year old Go grandmaster, began the game with stellar play, said Demis Hassabis, the CEO of DeepMind, the artificial intelligence firm that created AlphaGo, at a press conference, according to the Associated Press. Google acquired his company in 2014. But the Chinese prodigy was eventually bested by AlphaGo. In South Korea last year, DeepMind’s machine defeated another championship-caliber player, Lee Sedol, stunning some in the field of artificial intelligence.
