Google’s AlphaGo beats human Go champion in first match, 4 more to go

South Korean professional Go player Lee Sedol, right, drinks water after putting the first stone against Google’s artificial intelligence program, AlphaGo, as Google DeepMind’s lead programmer Aja Huang, left, sits during the Google DeepMind Challenge Match in Seoul, South Korea. (Source: AP)
Google’s computer program AlphaGo defeated its human opponent, Lee Sedol, in the first game of their highly anticipated five-game match.
Wednesday’s victory by AlphaGo, the artifici