AlphaGo defeated the world's number one Go player Ke Jie

Once again, the artificial intelligence AlphaGo defeated Ke Jie, the No. 1 player in the world today. After beating Korean legend Lee Se Dol with a 4-1 score, AlphaGo quickly gained the attention of the public and became one of the most prominent AI to date.

Go expert Michael Redmond remarked before the match: " I think everyone recognizes that Ke Jie is the best Go player. " But after more than 4 hours, the 19-year-old player has to succumb to AI from Google's DeepMind team.

AlphaGo only wins with a half-point number but currently, this AI doesn't care how much to win but just picks the move so it wins. This version of AlphaGo, called Master , has 10 times the computational performance compared to the previous version (beating Lee Se Dol) and seems to have gained an advantage from the beginning. CEO and co-founder DeepMind Demis Hassabis said at the press conference after the game ended: " It is really nice. Ke Jie played very well and pushed AlphaGo to his limit .

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The team at DeepMind also said in the future, other AlphaGo versions can play according to different goals such as maximizing distance to win the opponent with the highest score. " We want to use AlphaGo as a tool for the Go player community to use to improve their playing level, " Hassabis said.

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Demis Hassabis at the Future of Go Summit conference

The match between Ke and AlphaGo is part of the Future of Go Summit conference held by Google in Zhejiang, China this week. The second match will take place on Thursday (Chinese time) while the final match will take place on Saturday. On Friday, AlphaGo will take part in two matches, an AlphaGo will play as a teammate in a match between two Chinese players and the other one, AlphaGo alone will fight 5 players at a time.