Google's software beats human Go champion in first match
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Google's computer program AlphaGo defeated its human opponent, South Korean Go champion Lee Sedol, on Wednesday in the first face-off of a historic five-game match.
AlphaGo's victory in the ancient Chinese board game is a breakthrough for artificial intelligence, showing the program developed by Google DeepMind has mastered one of the most creative and complex games ever devised.
Top human players rely heavily on intuition and feelings to choose among a near-infinite number of board positions in Go, making the game extremely challenging for the artificial intelligence community.
[...] AlphaGo's performance has steadily improved.
AlphaGo's win over a human champion shows computers can mimic intuition and tackle more complex tasks, its creators say.