{"id":21253,"date":"2016-01-27T12:47:27","date_gmt":"2016-01-27T20:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/google-deepmind-ground-breaking-alphago-masters-the-game-of-go"},"modified":"2017-04-24T22:45:27","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T05:45:27","slug":"google-deepmind-ground-breaking-alphago-masters-the-game-of-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/google-deepmind-ground-breaking-alphago-masters-the-game-of-go","title":{"rendered":"Google DeepMind: Ground-breaking AlphaGo masters the game of Go"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SUbqykXVx0A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In a paper published in Nature on 28th January 2016, we describe a new approach to computer Go. This is the first time ever that a computer program \u201cAlphaGo\u201d has defeated a human professional player.<\/p>\n<p>The game of Go is widely viewed as an unsolved \u201cgrand challenge\u201d for artificial intelligence. Games are a great testing ground for inventing smarter, more flexible algorithms that have the ability to tackle problems in ways similar to humans. The first classic game mastered by a computer was noughts and crosses (also known as tic-tac-toe) in 1952. But until now, one game has thwarted A.I. researchers: the ancient game of Go.<\/p>\n<p>Despite decades of work, the strongest computer Go programs only played at the level of human amateurs. AlphaGo has won over 99% of games against the strongest other computer Go programs. It also defeated the human European champion by 5\u20130 in tournament games, a feat previously believed to be at least a decade away. In March 2016, AlphaGo will face its ultimate challenge: a 5-game challenge match in Seoul against the legendary Lee Sedol\u2014the top Go player in the world over the past decade.<\/p>\n<p>This video tells the story so far\u2026<\/p>\n<p>With Demis Hassabis, Google DeepMind.<\/p>\n<p>Deep Blue photo credit courtesy of International Business Machines Corporation, \u00a9 International Business Machines Corporation.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/google-deepmind-ground-breaking-alphago-masters-the-game-of-go\">Continue reading \u201cGoogle DeepMind: Ground-breaking AlphaGo masters the game of Go\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a paper published in Nature on 28th January 2016, we describe a new approach to computer Go. This is the first time ever that a computer program \u201cAlphaGo\u201d has defeated a human professional player. The game of Go is widely viewed as an unsolved \u201cgrand challenge\u201d for artificial intelligence. Games are a great testing [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":390,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1523,1509,41,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-computing","category-entertainment","category-information-science","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/390"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44298,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21253\/revisions\/44298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}