Google beats human champion in toughest-ever ancient Chinese game

Ahead of Facebook, a Google-run programme has defeated the reigning human champion of Go – a complex Chinese board game that is considered the “quintessential unsolved problem” for machine intelligence.
DeepMind, Google’s taciturn artificial intelligence arm, announced that its programme AlphaGo defeated Fan Hui – the current champion of the game that was developed in China 2,500 years ago.
Fan Hui has devoted his life to the game since the age of 12 and extended hi