Google AI to play PRC Go Champion

[Quantum]

The software would play a best-of-three match against Ke Jie, among other games against humans in the eastern Chinese city of Wuzhen from 23-27 April.

Last year, the Google program recorded a 4-1 victory against one of South Korea's top Go players.

One expert said that result had come as a surprise.
"A lot of AI researchers have been working on Go because it's the most challenging board game we have," said Calum Chace, author of Surviving AI.

(Google's AI seeks further Go glory
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-...)

Even with today's vast computer memories and incredibly fast processors (which have doubled more than eight times since Deep Blue), the ancient game will not yield to brute force. The size of the search required for Go is larger than chess by more than the number of atoms in the universe. It is the holy grail of AI gaming.

When Facebook announced earlier this year that their program had beaten a strong Go amateur, jaws dropped in the AI community - and fell to the floor that same day when Google's Deep Mind genius team announced their AlphaGo beat the European champion 5-0.

(Artificial intelligence: Google's AlphaGo beats Go master Lee Se-dol
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-...)

This is the best introductory book to Go (I own a copy):

[M.L.]

I haven't heard of this, but it sure sounds like fun! :)