At 1 p.m. in South Korea on March 9th, Google will attempt to make history.
A program called AlphaGo, designed by Google's DeepMind artificial intelligence team, will match wits with Lee Sedol, one of the greatest Go players in the world.
Sodol and AlphaGo will play a series of matches over the course of five days. If AlphaGo wins, it will be the latest in artificial intelligence's mastery of human games. Checkers fell in 1994, chess in 1997, and Jeopardy in 2011. Last October, AlphaGo became to first program to beat a professional Go player; now it's taking on one of the best players alive.
"If the program wins, it's definitely an important milestone," Brown University computer scientist Michael L. Littman tells Tech Insider.
What makes Go — a game that in 2014 seemed impossible for computers to win against humans — such a beguiling target for artificial intelligence is the nature of the game itself.
Created in China 2,500 years ago, Go appears simple. A game begins with a empty board. Two players (one using black stones, the other white), alternate placing stones in squares, trying to grab territory without getting their pieces captured.
As Alan Levinovitz noted in Wired, the game quickly get complex. There are 400 possible board positions after the first round of moves in Chess and 129,960 in Go. There are 35 possible moves on any turn in a Chess game, and 250 for Go.
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