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Next Stage in AI - AlphaGo

Just finished watching a documentary on Netflix but now on YouTube , on how a software developing company in the UK was able to put together a team that that was able to build a software program sponsored by Google that could beat the world's best Go player. On February 10, 1996, Deep Blue by IBM was able to beat Garry Kasparov who was at that time the world's best chess player in the first game of a six-game match—the first time a computer had ever beat a human in a formal chess game. Now, computers beat world champions regularly, that it just formality and they are winning every game if it properly tuned. Go is regarded as a more complex game than chess,  the number of legal board positions in Go has been calculated to be approximately 2 × 10 170 , which is said to be far greater than the total number of atoms in the universe. Go is the oldest continuous board game and described as the most complex game ever designed by man. Chess is reported to have a mere 5 × 10 52 .in c