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AlphaGo is a computer program that plays the board game Go. [1] It was developed by the London-based DeepMind Technologies, [2] an acquired subsidiary of Google.Subsequent versions of AlphaGo became increasingly powerful, including a version that competed under the name Master. [3]
AlphaGo versus Lee Sedol, also known as the DeepMind Challenge Match, was a five-game Go match between top Go player Lee Sedol and AlphaGo, a computer Go program developed by DeepMind, played in Seoul, South Korea between the 9th and 15th of March 2016. AlphaGo won all but the fourth game; [1] all games were won by resignation. [2]
Google DeepMind offered $1.5 million winner prizes for this match while the losing side took $300,000 for participating in the three games. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] AlphaGo won all three games against Ke Jie . [ 13 ] [ 14 ] After the match between AlphaGo and Ke Jie, AlphaGo retired while DeepMind continued AI research in other areas. [ 15 ]
David Silver, one of the first authors of DeepMind's papers published in Nature on AlphaGo, said that it is possible to have generalized AI algorithms by removing the need to learn from humans. [6] Google later developed AlphaZero, a generalized version of AlphaGo Zero that could play chess and Shōgi in addition to Go. [7]
AlphaGo versus Fan Hui was a five-game Go match between European champion Fan Hui, a 2-dan (out of 9 dan possible) professional, and AlphaGo, a computer Go program developed by DeepMind, held at DeepMind's headquarters in London in October 2015. [1]
After it beat Korean grandmaster Lee Sedol by four games to one earlier this year, Google's AlphaGo has become the Go player to beat. Even while the series was still being played, 18-year-old ...
DeepMind, a Google acquisition dedicated to AI research, produced AlphaGo in 2015 and announced it to the world in 2016. AlphaGo defeated Lee Sedol , a 9 dan professional, in a no-handicap match in 2016, then defeated Ke Jie in 2017 , who at the time continuously held the world No. 1 ranking for two years.
After winning its three-game match against Chinese grandmaster Ke Jie, the world's top Go player, AlphaGo was awarded professional 9-dan by Chinese Weiqi Association. [10] DeepMind announced that AlphaGo would retire, and DeepMind would disband the team that worked on Go and spend their time exploring new AI in other areas instead of Go.