Google’s DeepMind-based AI scored a historic victory today in a game of Go against Lee Se-dol, the second highest ranking player in the world. Se-dol resigned after roughly three and a half hours of play in the first in a series of five matches. The win is huge for Google’s AlphaGo AI, as it’s the first time a computer has gone up against a player ranked ‘9 dan,’ the maximum ranking of supremacy in the game. AlphaGo previously defeated European champion Fan Hui five times in a row. The AI trained with 30 million moves from games played by human experts,…
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