Google has thrown down the gauntlet in front of the top player of one of the world’s hardest games to show that an AI that it’s been developing is the most advanced, human-like algorithm on the planet. Announced by Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, himself a former chess master and the creator of Theme Park, the “historic” competition between South Korea’s Lee Sedol and the AlphaGo algorithm will include five matches of the ancient strategy game ‘Go.’ ‘Go’ looks like a rather simple game made up of black and white stones that are used to close off sections of the board and…
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