The real deal

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) just overcame a new hurdle: learning to play Go, a game considered thousands of times more complex than chess—well enough to beat the greatest human player at his own game. South Korean national Lee Se-dol, one of the world’s top Go players, won only one of the five matches against Google’s AlphaGo, missing out on the $1-million prize up for grabs in a recent ‘challenge’ held in Seoul.
AlphaGo, an AI system developed by Google DeepMind,