Items tagged with alphago

by Brandon Hill - Wed, Nov 27, 2019

Korean Go Champion Hangs Up His Stones, Retires Over Invincible Google DeepMind AI

Google's DeepMind division has been demolishing human opponents left in right in traditional games like Go (also called Baduk), and even more modern fare like Starcraft. However, one human Go player is calling it quits years after he was defeated by DeepMind AlphaGo AI. Lee Se-dol, a South Korean Go champion told... Read more...

by Brittany Goetting - Mon, Apr 10, 2017

Google's Powerhouse DeepMind AlphaGo AI To Challenge World's Top Go Player

A year after defeating South Korea’s Go master Lee Se-dol, Google’s DeepMind AlphaGo is once again ready to challenge the world’s top players. Google, the China Go Association, and the Chinese government are planning to host the “Future of Go Summit” in Wuzhen this coming May. The “Future of Go Summit” is a... Read more...

by Brandon Hill - Wed, May 18, 2016

Google’s Custom Tensor Processing Unit Leapfrogs Moore’s Law With Epic Machine Learning Performance

It’s no secret that Google is heavily invested in machine learning algorithms for use in its vast software portfolio. Products like Street View, Inbox Smart Reply and even voice search rely heavily on machine learning to deliver customers the data they need in quick fashion. But behind what may seem like rather... Read more...

by Brandon Hill - Sat, Mar 12, 2016

AlphaGo Dominates Google DeepMind Challenge With Third Straight Go Win Over Lee Sedol

World renowned Go player Lee Sedol had aspirations of quickly dispatching with Google’s AlphaGo computer. However, Sedol’s chances of embarrassing Google’s DeepMind AI quickly started to evaporate when AlphaGo won the first match. Then AlphaGo won the second match, and early this morning, Google’s AI finished off... Read more...

by Paul Lilly - Thu, Mar 10, 2016

Google AlphaGo AI Notches Second Straight Win Against Legendary Go Player Lee Sedol

Score another victory for artificial intelligence, and specifically for Google's AlphaGo computer. The product of Google's DeepMind division, AlphaGo was again victorious against legendary Go player Lee Sedol, winning a second consecutive time to take a commanding 2-0 lead as part of a five game series. This is... Read more...

by Brandon Hill - Wed, Mar 09, 2016

Google AlphaGo Artificial Intelligence Defeats Go World Champion Lee Sedol

Chalk one up for artificial intelligence! Google’s AlphaGo computer, which hails from Google’s DeepMind division, scored a decisive victory over one of the most decorated Go players in the world. Alpha Go played in “such a perfect manner,” says Lee Sedol, who was defeated in roughly three and a half hours. Go is an... Read more...