Google and DeepMind to pair professional Go players with AlphaGo AI program at ‘Future of Go Summit’ in China

Alphabet’s artificial intelligence (AI) subsidiary, DeepMind, has announced a five-day festival in China that will pair some of China’s top Go players with DeepMind’s AI-powered program, AlphaGo.
The ancient strategy board game, developed in China more than 2,000 years ago, received worldwide attention last year when AlphaGo beat a professional South Korean Go player. Earlier this year, it was confirmed that AlphaGo had since beaten some top player