{"id":57688,"date":"2017-05-23T18:42:27","date_gmt":"2017-05-24T01:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/google-ai-beats-chinese-master-in-ancient-game-of-go"},"modified":"2017-05-23T18:42:27","modified_gmt":"2017-05-24T01:42:27","slug":"google-ai-beats-chinese-master-in-ancient-game-of-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/google-ai-beats-chinese-master-in-ancient-game-of-go","title":{"rendered":"Google AI beats Chinese master in ancient game of Go"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/google-ai-beats-chinese-master-in-ancient-game-of-go.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>BEIJING A Google artificial intelligence program defeated a Chinese grand master at the ancient board game Go on Tuesday, a major feather in the cap for the firm\u2019s AI ambitions as it looks to woo Beijing to gain re-entry into the country.<\/p>\n<p>In the first of three planned games in the eastern water town of Wuzhen, the AlphaGo program held off China\u2019s world number one Ke Jie in front of Chinese officials and Google parent Alphabet\u2019s (GOOGL.O) chief executive Eric Schmidt.<\/p>\n<p>The victory over the world\u2019s top player \u2014 which many thought would take decades to achieve \u2014 underlines the potential of artificial intelligence to take on humans at complex tasks.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-science-intelligence-go-idUSKBN18J0PE?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=Social\">http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-science-intelligence-go-id...ium=Social<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING A Google artificial intelligence program defeated a Chinese grand master at the ancient board game Go on Tuesday, a major feather in the cap for the firm\u2019s AI ambitions as it looks to woo Beijing to gain re-entry into the country. In the first of three planned games in the eastern water town of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57688","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\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}