Computer Beats Go Champion for First Time

Published on January 27, 2023

Since the 1990s computers have continually gotten better at beating us at our own games like chess, checkers, poker and Jeopardy!. But there is one game at which expert human players continue to dominate machines: Go. The more than 2,500-year-old board game, in which two players use black and white stones to try to capture more territory than their opponent, is extremely complex, which has made it difficult for computers to master. But it seems as though human supremacy in Go may have finally ended—researchers at Google DeepMind announced today that they’ve created a sophisticated artificial intelligence (AI) program—a combination of deep neural networks and a search technique—that has beaten a Go champion for the first time in history.

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